To John Lubbock 6 November 1881
Summary
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13463 |
From Wilhelm Pfeffer 6 November 1881
Summary
It is impossible to trace the direct connections between stimuli and responses in plant movements. Disagrees with much of Julius von Wiesner [Die Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Disagrees with CD on induced movements and circumnutation.
Author: | Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13464 |
From T. M. Reade 6 November 1881
Summary
Praise for Earthworms.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13465 |
From A. E. Graves 6 November 1881
Summary
Sends his observations on the behaviour of a worm. They seem to indicate some sensory apparatus enabling it to "see".
Author: | Anthony Elly Graves |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13467 |
To F. B. Zincke 7 November 1881
Summary
Would like to cite the case of the celt in a new printing of Earthworms. Asks for details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Date: | 7 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13468 |
From C. J. Breese 7 November 1881
Summary
Sends CD an abstract of his 1871 paper on the earthworm, and requests information on the phenomenon of luminosity.
Author: | Charles James Breese |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13469 |
From Sarah Marshall 7 November 1881
Summary
Can CD explain why in a mollusc (Bulimus decollatus) immature forms are always broken at the apex.
Author: | Sarah Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13470 |
To T. M. Reade 8 November 1881
Summary
"Roots often run down worm burrows, but can penetrate the ground without such aid."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 8 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13472 |
From F. B. Zincke 8 November 1881
Summary
Describes the soil in which he found prehistoric tools.
Author: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13473 |
From J. F. Simpson 8 November 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter and gives permission to use his observations, although not considering himself a worthy authority. Enlarges upon some of his previous observations.
Author: | James Frederick Simpson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13474 |
To A. E. Graves 9 November 1881
Summary
Cannot explain worm behaviour observed by AEG. Cannot believe in power of vision. Inclined to speculate on capacity for distinguishing damp air.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anthony Elly Graves |
Date: | 9 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13475 |
To Francis Darwin 9 November [1881]
Summary
Comments on two letters received from W. F. P. Pfeffer [13425, 13464] who thinks Julius Wiesner’s view that light, etc. acts directly on plants is wrong.
Is frantic over the number of letters received about worms; feels the enthusiasm of the reception of Earthworms is laughable.
Is confounded by Euphorbia rootlets and has re-examined the effect of carbonate of ammonia.
Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Wiesner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 70, DAR 211: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13476 |
From Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvár 10 November 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
Author: | Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13477 |
To J. F. Galbraith 11 November 1881
Summary
Explains that the animals in the cask cannot have developed from the wheat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Frazelle Galbraith |
Date: | 11 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13477F |
From Julius Wiesner 11 November 1881
Summary
CD has misunderstood his views on heliotropism. Agrees that his experiments on the movement of root tips are weak. Will conduct further research. Thinks that since mechanical conception of botany is not so widespread, those who agree with CD probably are in majority.
Author: | Julius Wiesner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 22 (EH 88206074) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13478 |
To G. J. Romanes 12 November 1881
Summary
Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 12 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.601) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13479 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 November [1881]
Summary
Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13480 |
To Fritz Müller 13 November 1881
Summary
Is experimenting with effect of ammonium carbonate on chlorophyll and roots, but finds the results confusing.
Julius von Wiesner has published a book reinterpreting CD’s observations in Movement in plants [see 13422].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 13 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13481 |
From J. C. Clutterbuck 13 November 1881
Summary
Describes earthworms moving to the surface to escape moles.
Author: | James Charles Clutterbuck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13482 |
From J. P. Taylor 14 November 1881
Summary
Thinks CD overestimates earthworms’ role in creating mould. Gives some observations on worms and questions about their breeding habits.
Author: | John Pitt Taylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13483 |
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