From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
To Julius Lippert [May 1881 or later]
Summary
Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Lippert |
Date: | [May 1881 or later] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12959 |
To Gaston de Saporta 13 [May] 1881
Summary
Thanks for work sent by GdeS and A. F. Marion [L’évolution du règne végétal 1 (1881)]. CD greatly pleased at boldness with which GdeS expresses his belief in evolution. Some of GdeS’s countrymen have been "a little timid" on this head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 13 [May] 1881 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13052 |
To W. E. Gladstone 2 May 1881
Summary
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 2 May 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13142 |
From Louis Piré 2 May 1881
Summary
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Author: | Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13142A |
From S. F. Baird 3 May 1881
Summary
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Author: | Spencer Fullerton Baird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13143 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 May [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13144 |
To Alexander Agassiz 5 May 1881
Summary
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 5 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13145 |
To R. G. Whiteman 5 May 1881
Summary
Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Gilbert Whiteman |
Date: | 5 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 354 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13146 |
From F. A. Tscherning 6 May 1881
Summary
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Author: | Friedrich August Tscherning |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13147 |
From Francis Ewbank 6 May 1881
Summary
Mr Coleman has retired. FE can see CD and can arrange for administering the gas.
Author: | Francis Ewbank |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13148 |
From W. E. Darwin 7 May 1881
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13148F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 May [1881]
Summary
Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 7 May [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13149 |
To Francis Galton 8 May [1881]
Summary
Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 8 May [1881] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13150 |
To Alpheus Hyatt 8 May 1881
Summary
Aware that AH thinks CD has done nothing to advance the good cause of the descent theory.
Obliged for gift of AH’s [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Date: | 8 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13151 |
To E. W. Bok 10 May 1881
Summary
Sends autograph. Hopes collecting will lead Bok to science, as it did him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Bok |
Date: | 10 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13151F |
From Frithiof Holmgren 8 May 1881
Summary
Thanks for letter expressing CD’s position with regard to experiments on living animals and for getting the letter printed in the Times [18 Apr 1881, Collected papers 2: 226–7].
Author: | Frithiof Holmgren |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13152 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 May [1881]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 10 May [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 226) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13153 |
To Daniel McAlpine 10 May 1881
Summary
Thanks for DM’s [Zoological atlas (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel McAlpine |
Date: | 10 May 1881 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6273 Box 289(c) 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13154 |
To Francis Darwin 12 May [1881]
Summary
Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155 |
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