To G. J. Romanes [17 December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [17 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12382 |
From Félix Hément 24 December 1881
Summary
Sends notes of reports by E. A. Axon, George Ticknor, and Joseph Alley to Académie des Sciences on deaf mutes.
Author: | Félix Hément |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13428 |
To Hugo de Vries 9 December 1881
Summary
Can HdV supply a reference to a paper describing a stem or a root divided longitudinally and the separate parts acted on by geotropism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
Date: | 9 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13446F |
To Hugo de Vries [December 1881?]
Summary
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
Date: | [Dec 1881?] |
Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13523F |
From J. F. Simpson 1 December 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.
Author: | James Frederick Simpson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13524 |
To B. J. Sulivan 1 December 1881
Summary
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 1 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13525 |
To G. W. Norman 1 December 1881
Summary
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
Date: | 1 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13525A |
From James Paget 1 December 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13525F |
To James Paget 3 December 1881
Summary
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
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-13526 |
From B. J. Sulivan 3 December 1881
Summary
BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13527 |
From F. G. M. Powell 3 December 1881
Author: | Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13528 |
To F. G. M. Powell [after 3 December 1881]
Summary
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell |
Date: | [after 3 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 117v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13529 |
From E. B. Wilson 5 December 1881
Summary
Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.
Author: | Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13530 |
From Arthur Hall 5 December 1881
Summary
Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.
Author: | Arthur Hall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13531 |
From G. H. Darwin [6 December 1881]
Summary
Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13532 |
From J. V. Carus 6 December 1881
Summary
Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13533 |
To Arthur Hall 6 December 1881
Summary
Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Hall |
Date: | 6 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13533A |
From J. B. Dunbar-Brander 7 December [1881]
Summary
Comments on CD’s Earthworms.
Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?
Author: | James Brander Dunbar-Brander |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13534 |
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 |
To G. J. Romanes 8 December 1881
Summary
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 8 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13536 |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Geikie, James | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Marshall, W. P. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, Horace | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |