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
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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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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