From W. P. Snow 21 November 1881
Summary
Is planning a revised edition of his Cruise in Tierra del Fuego [1857], and finds his opinions on the natives the reverse of CD’s.
Hopes he may call some time.
| Author: | William Parker Snow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13495 |
From T. L. Brunton 21 November 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his offer of assistance to David Ferrier.
Discusses CD’s earthworm book.
Tonsils in man as rudimentary organs.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 346 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13496 |
From Frederick Capes 21 November 1881
Summary
Reports extract of spurge [Euphorbia] killing earthworms.
| Author: | Frederick Capes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 November 1881
Summary
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13497F |
From George King 21 November 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
Glad CD liked the Dischidia drawing. GK wishes he could see it in the wild to study its habits and those of the insects that visit it.
| Author: | George King |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13498 |
From W. C. McIntosh 21 November 1881
Summary
Asks for a testimonial for the Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.
| Author: | William Carmichael McIntosh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13499 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 21 November 1881
Summary
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13500 |
To W. C. McIntosh [after 21 November 1881]
Summary
Must refuse WCM’s request to revise E. Ray Lankester's testimonial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Carmichael McIntosh |
| Date: | [after 21 Nov 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 110v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13501 |
| letter | (8) |
| Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Capes, Frederick | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| McIntosh, W. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| McIntosh, W. C. | (2) |
| Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Capes, Frederick | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| King, George | (1) |
| Snow, W. P. | (1) |
