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To G. H. Darwin   [1882?]

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Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [1882?]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13590

To G. J. Romanes   1 January [1882]

Summary

Describes grafting experiment of Baron de Villa Franca, which produced new varieties of sugar-cane. Encloses related documents.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  1 Jan [1882]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.609)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13592

From Fritz Müller   1 January 1882

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In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.

Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.

Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.

Author:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 106: C19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13593

To Grant Allen   2 January 1882

Summary

Thanks GA for his article ["The daisy’s pedigree", Cornhill Mag. 44 (1881): 168–81].

The evolutionary argument that petals are transformed stamens is "striking and apparently valid". Doubts petals are naturally yellow.

Wallace’s "generalization about much modified parts being splendidly coloured" is also dubious except as both are caused by sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:  2 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13594

From Arthur de Souza Corrêa   2 January 1882

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Thanks CD for letter for Villa Franca. Would be happy if CD published the Baron’s observations in an English scientific journal.

Author:  João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 160: 284
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13595

To V. O. Kovalevsky   2 January [1882]

Summary

Thanks VOK for a photograph and his New Year wishes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:  2 Jan [1882]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13596

To G. J. Romanes   3 January [1882]

Summary

Asks GJR’s opinion about grafting experiments on sugar-cane carried out by the Baron [de Villa Franca].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  3 Jan [1882]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.610)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13597

From H. C. Sorby   3 January 1882

Summary

Reports the inconclusive results of some experiments he has been doing for CD [related to plant colouring material?].

Author:  Henry Clifton Sorby
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 220
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13598

To Fritz Müller   4 January 1882

Summary

On F. M. Balfour.

Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.

FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  4 Jan 1882
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10: 58)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13599

From W. E. Darwin   4 January 1882

Summary

Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13599F

To G. J. Romanes   6 January 1882

Summary

Accepts GJR’s offer to prepare sugar-cane paper for publication [Villa Franca and Glass, "New varieties of sugar-cane", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1880–2): 30–1]. Suggests introduction and outline.

Agrees with GJR on microscope for Grant Allen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  6 Jan 1882
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.611), DAR 207: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13600

To Theodor Eimer   6 January [1882]

Summary

Is obliged for TE’s paper on the wall lizard and another paper.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:  6 Jan [1882]
Classmark:  CUL: Library Correspondence 1953: ref. 1273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13600F

From J. F. Simpson   7 January 1882

Summary

Has read Earthworms; discusses parts and encloses a list of errata. Writes of worm-castings, describing his observations; speculates on the variation in their distribution under different conditions.

Author:  James Frederick Simpson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13601

From J. W. Judd   8 January 1882

Summary

Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.

Author:  John Wesley Judd
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 168: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13604

From J. H. Gilbert   9 January 1882

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Thanks CD for Earthworms.

Discusses the problem of accounting for difference between nitrogen in permanent grassland and ordinary arable soil. Finds castings of earthworms rich in nitrogen. Asks CD if his observations enable him to explain the source. If from below top-soil, it would be a considerable manuring.

Author:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 165: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13605

From Gottlieb Haberlandt   9 January 1882

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Sends his paper on the comparative anatomy of the assimilatory tissue systems of plants [Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 13 (1882): 74–188]. This work has made clear to him how CD’s principles produce rich results when applied to plant anatomy.

Also sends a paper on the difficult problem of the gulf between cryptogamic and phanerogamic plants in the evolutionary development, in order to present another proof of the continuity of the phylogenetic development of the plant kingdom.

Author:  Gottlieb Haberlandt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 166: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13606

To James Torbitt   10 January 1882

Summary

CD’s gardener reports that potatoes were not attacked by disease, but yield was not good. Noble of JT to plan the return of subscriptions if trade continues to improve.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  10 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 148: 130
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13608

From Raphael Meldola   11 January 1882

Summary

Wishes to borrow Weismann’s pamphlet on the Daphnidae [ "Ueber die Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden", Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30 (Supp.)]. Is preparing an essay on "alternation of generations".

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 171: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13609

To F. J. Cohn   11 January 1882

Summary

Thanks FJC for presentation copy [of Die Pflanze (1882)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  11 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 143: 270
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13610

To T. H. Huxley   12 January 1882

Summary

Thanks for Science and culture [1881].

Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13612
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