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To Nature   13 July [1881]

Summary

Communicates two cases of inheritance reported by J. P. Bishop [in 13137]. The work of E. Brown-Séquard has demonstrated that effects of injuries can be inherited ["Hereditary transmission of an epileptiform affection accidentally produced", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 10 (1860): 297–8]. E. Dupuy has sent CD a still more remarkable case.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  13 July [1881]
Classmark:  Nature, 21 July 1881, p. 257
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13245

To ?   18 July 1881

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Summary

Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  18 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 202: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13248

To ?   31 July [1881?]

Summary

Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  31 July [1881?]
Classmark:  David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13267

To Francis Darwin   [9 July 1881]

Summary

Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [9 July 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13103

To Francis Darwin   [c. 8 July 1881?]

Summary

A stock certificate has arrived for FD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [c. 8 July 1881?]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 82v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13186

From Ernst Haeckel   1 July 1881

Summary

Thanks CD for offer of financial support. Discusses application for funds for Ceylon trip.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13228

From G. J. Romanes   1 July [1881]

Summary

Has told John Collier to write to CD to arrange for portrait.

Will read [W. Graham’s] Creed of science.

Has got into row with W. B. Carpenter over thought-reading.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 July [1881]
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 119
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13229

To William Graham   3 July 1881

Summary

Praises WG’s Creed of science.

He disagrees that the existence of natural laws implies purpose, but his "inmost conviction" is that "the Universe is not the result of chance". But then has horrid doubt whether convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from lower animals, are at all trustworthy.

Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Graham
Date:  3 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 144: 345
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13230

To Francisco de Arruda Furtado   3 and 6 July 1881

Summary

Thanks Fd’AF for his interesting letter. CD suggests observations it would be worth making [in the Azores] although he is too old to make any direct use of them. Fauna and flora of different islands should be compared and the plants and animals from all high mountain summits collected. Suggests Fd’AF investigate the presence of glacial deposits and fossils on the islands. Survival of eggs in salt-water should be tested, as the wide distribution of lizards, land molluscs, and earthworms is a perplexing problem.

Will be very glad to read the essays Fd’AF sent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:  3 and 6 July 1881
Classmark:  Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0017)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13231

To G. J. Romanes   4 July [1881]

Summary

Is returning to Down.

Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  4 July [1881]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.594)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13232

To Fritz Müller   4 July 1881

Summary

Movement of plants to shake off water: FM’s invaluable observations.

Inquires about "bloom" on leaves.

Fertilisation of Melastomataceae, roles of the two sets of anthers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  4 July 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 53)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13233

To A. B. Buckley   6 July [1881]

Summary

Will be glad to read over her article.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:  6 July [1881]
Classmark:  John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13234

To F. M. Balfour   6 July 1881

Summary

Comments on FMB’s book [Treatise on comparative embryology, 2 vols. (1880–1)]. Had already purchased copy. Could second copy be sent to someone else? Fritz Müller?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  6 July 1881
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/21)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13235

To Alphonse de Candolle   6 July [1881]

Summary

Thanks for a "grand volume" [vol. 3 of Monographiae phanerogamarum (1878–96)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alphonse de Candolle
Date:  6 July [1881]
Classmark:  Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13236

To Francis Darwin   8 July 1881

Summary

Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.

Is going over revises of Earthworms.

Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  8 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 211: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13237

From A. R. Wallace   9 July 1881

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Summary

Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 106: B154–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13238

From Alphonse de Candolle   9 July 1881

Summary

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 161: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13239

From F. M. Balfour   10 July 1881

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Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 160: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13240

From W. W. Gull   10 July 1881

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Would be honoured if CD would come to dine with him, distinguished foreign guests, and H.R.H. Prince of Wales, on 3 Aug, the opening of the [7th International Medical] Congress.

Author:  William Withey Gull, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 165: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13241

To A. B. Buckley   11 July 1881

Summary

Comments on her life of Lyell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:  11 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 143: 187
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13242
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