From ? [March 1881]
Summary
Notes on the thickness of mould on the slope of the inland side of Beachy Head.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Mar 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 65: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13070 |
From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
From W. E. Darwin 1 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392G |
From Lawrence Ruck 12 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.
Author: | Lawrence Ruck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12417 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 February [1881]
Summary
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12498 |
From W. R. Browne [20–2] November [1881]
Summary
Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20–2] Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12789 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach [before 20 June 1881]
Summary
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12962 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
From Ernst Krause 2 January 1881
Summary
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12969 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 January 1881
Summary
Returns [Wallace] memorial.
Hopes to be able to send classification paper soon. [See 12935.]
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12971 |
From James Caird 3 January 1881
Summary
JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.
Author: | James Caird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12974 |
From Gottlieb Haberlandt 5 January 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for a second copy of Movement in plants. His letter acknowledging the first must have gone astray. Marvels at the number of interesting observations and is honoured by CD’s mention of his work.
In recent years GH has been applying CD’s principles to the histologico-anatomical structure of plant organs. He will send CD the papers.
Author: | Gottlieb Haberlandt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January 1881
Summary
Passes on legal advice.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12980F |
From W. E. Gladstone 6 January 1881
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12981 |
From W. R. Browne [after 7] January 1881
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12991 |
From Ernst Krause 8 January 1881
Summary
CD may choose where to publish EK’s reply to Butler. Would prefer Athenæum. Thinks it better that CD not reply himself.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12993 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 January 1881
Summary
Appreciation of CD’s efforts in recommending him for pension. Asks about proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12994 |
From James Torbitt 8 January 1881
Summary
Report on the progress of his experiments with potatoes; some varieties spoilt by an apparently hereditary disease.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12995 |
From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 217–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12996 |
From T. L. Brunton 10 January 1881
Summary
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12999 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (22) |
Darwin, G. H. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (11) |
Romanes, G. J. | (11) |