To G. H. Darwin [1882?]
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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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Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Allen, Grant | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |