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 Louis Piré 2 May 1881
Summary
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Author: | Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13142A |
From S. F. Baird 3 May 1881
Summary
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Author: | Spencer Fullerton Baird |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13143 |
From F. A. Tscherning 6 May 1881
Summary
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Author: | Friedrich August Tscherning |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13147 |
From Francis Ewbank 6 May 1881
Summary
Mr Coleman has retired. FE can see CD and can arrange for administering the gas.
Author: | Francis Ewbank |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13148 |
From W. E. Darwin 7 May 1881
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13148F |
From Frithiof Holmgren 8 May 1881
Summary
Thanks for letter expressing CD’s position with regard to experiments on living animals and for getting the letter printed in the Times [18 Apr 1881, Collected papers 2: 226–7].
Author: | Frithiof Holmgren |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13152 |
From Francis Darwin 14 May 1881
Summary
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13155F |
From Ernst Krause 15 May 1881
Summary
Sends his review of Movement in plants from Die Gartenlaube.
Comments on the future prospects of Kosmos.
Comments on review of Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory by Romanes in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7] and Romanes’ reply to Butler [pp. 335–6].
Asks whether he might have a chapter of Earthworms to print in Kosmos.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13158 |
From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
From Alexander Agassiz 19 May 1881
Summary
Discusses the structure and formation of the Florida peninsula. Part played by marine animals in building banks on which coral can thrive.
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1881 |
Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, pp. 284–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166 |
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
Summary
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13166F |
From James Torbitt 20 May 1881
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 52: E17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13168 |
From J. V. Carus 21 May 1881
Summary
Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 198: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13169F |
From Francis Darwin 23 [May 1881]
Summary
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 [May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170F |
From W. E. Darwin 23 May 1881
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170G |
From Alpheus Hyatt 23 May 1881
Summary
Wishes to correct impression of his attitude towards CD’s contribution: CD has successfully explained how differences arise.
Pleased CD will read his book [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13171 |
From Victor Hensen 25 May 1881
Summary
Mentions article by P. E. Müller on worms: "Structur over skovjord [forest soil]" [Tidsk. Skovbrug 3 (1878)].
Author: | Christian Andreas Victor (Victor) Hensen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13172 |
From G. J. Romanes 25 May [1881]
Summary
Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13173 |
From Frithiof Holmgren 26 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for photograph. They are battling for same cause.
Author: | Frithiof Holmgren |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13176 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Baird, S. F. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Ewbank, Francis | (1) |
Goodwin, W. H. | (1) |
Hannay, J. B. | (1) |
Hensen, Victor | (1) |
Holmgren, Frithiof | (2) |
Hyatt, Alpheus | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, Charles (b) | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Norton, C. E. | (1) |
Piré, Louis | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Tscherning, F. A. | (1) |