From H. N. Moseley 24 September 1881
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13354 |
From H. N. Moseley 7 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13375 |
From H. N. Moseley 9 October 1881
Summary
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13384 |
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 |
From H. N. Moseley 9 December 1881
Summary
He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.
Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13535 |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Moseley, H. N. |