To D. W. Thompson [before February 1882]
Summary
Is glad to hear that Hermann Müller approves of D’AWT’s translation of his work [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]; he hopes a publisher may be found for a work of such high value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
Date: | [before Feb 1882] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10748 |
To Raphael Meldola 2 February 1882
Summary
Regrets he can add no more to his preface for Weismann’s Studies. Offers donation to aid with publishing expenses.
Thinks RM’s preface is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 2 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club, Meldola papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13654 |
To J. D. Cooper 4 February 1882
Summary
Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Davis Cooper |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13658 |
To Anthony Rich 4 February 1882
Summary
Exchanges news on health.
Thanks AR for his worm observations.
George Darwin’s work is attracting attention; he intends to try for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge. Adds other news of George and of CD’s sons Leonard and William.
CD has finished his microscopic work and has only to write up two papers for the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anthony Rich |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A44–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13659 |
To Emil Holub 4 February 1882
Summary
Thanks EH for book on ornithology of South Africa and for his essays [Beiträge zur Ornithologie Südafrikas von Aug. von Holub und E. Pelzeln (1882)].
Will be pleased to see him when he comes to England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Holub |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Národní Muzeum, Prague |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13661 |
To S. H. Vines 4 February 1882
Summary
CD will put together his notes on the action of carbonate of ammonia on roots in a few days. Asks SHV to send any information he may have, but not to answer if he has none. [See 13666.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13661A |
To Raphael Meldola 5 February 1882
Summary
Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 5 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13662 |
To Henry Johnson 7 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.
Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 7 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare and Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13668 |
To William Horsfall 8 February 1882
Summary
Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.
Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Horsfall |
Date: | 8 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13670 |
To Edward Frankland 8 February 1882
Summary
Asks EF to sign enclosed certificate if he thinks Raphael Meldola deserves being elected F.R.S. [See 13674.] Requests that his note with certificate be passed on to Norman Lockyer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 8 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13670A |
To Trübner & Co. 9 February [1882]
Summary
Orders International scientific directory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Trübner & Co. |
Date: | 9 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.616) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13671 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 February 1882
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672 |
To [Greville Williams?] 10 February 1882
Summary
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Hanson Greville (Greville) Williams |
Date: | 10 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13675 |
To G. Clinch 10 February 1882
Summary
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | G. Clinch |
Date: | 10 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13676 |
To John Lubbock 11 February 1882
Summary
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 11 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13677F |
To John Tyndall 13 February 1882
Summary
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13680 |
To W. B. Carpenter 13 February 1882
Summary
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13681 |
To Lawson Tait 13 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13682 |
To A. A. Reade 13 February 1882
Summary
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Arthur Reade |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13685 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13686 |
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Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Cooper, J. D. | (2) |
Crick, W. D. | (2) |
Johnson, Henry (b) | (2) |
Astley, G. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Cooper, J. D. | (2) |
Crick, W. D. | (2) |
Johnson, Henry (b) | (2) |
Astley, G. S. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Brown, John | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Clinch, G. | (1) |
Collier, John | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Holub, Emil | (1) |
Horner, K. M. | (1) |
Horsfall, William | (1) |
Leng, H. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, J. C. | (1) |
Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (1) |
Merighi, Giuseppe | (1) |
Nicholson, G. S. | (1) |
Ogle, William | (1) |
Reade, A. A. | (1) |
Rich, Anthony | (1) |
Steffen, Max | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Thompson, D’A. W. | (1) |
Trübner & Co. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Vines, S. H. | (1) |
White, Walter | (1) |
Williams, Greville | (1) |