To S. H. Vines 27 November 1881
Summary
Describes experiment in which Euphorbia and Drosophyllum roots were exposed to ammonium carbonate solution. Asks SHV’s opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13513 |
To C.-F. Reinwald 27 November 1881
Summary
Has no objection to Édouard Heckel’s preface to the French translation of Movement in Plants.
Sends some additions for the French translation of Earthworms.
Wouls like a copy of the French translation of Movement in Plants sent to Gaston de Saporta, Charles Frédéric Martins and Charles Victor Naudin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 7327 f. 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13513F |
From T. L. Brunton 27 November 1881
Summary
Writes regarding subscription to set up the Science Defence and Advancement Fund to protect investigators from anti-vivisectionists and to promote knowledge of the purpose and importance of vivisection.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13514 |
From E. T. Crabbe 27 November 1881
Summary
Offers for sale a MS of lost Erasmus Darwin poem on materialism [Francis Darwin note: "Swindle"].
Author: | Edmund Thornton Crabbe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13515 |
From H. N. Moseley 27 November 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for support in his election as Linacre Professor at Oxford.
J. Y. Buchanan, of the Challenger, says deep-sea red mud is fine because, like CD’s vegetable mould, it has been digested by worms and echinoderms.
Visited by John MacNeile Price, the son of CD’s friend from Chile, Mr Price; the son is now Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13516 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crabbe, E. T. | (1) |
Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Vines, S. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Crabbe, E. T. | (1) |
Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Vines, S. H. | (1) |