From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Gilbert Whiteman
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 354
Summary:
Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 72
Summary:
Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 50
Summary:
CD defends English physiologists on vivisection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 and 17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 73
Summary:
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
18 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 129
Summary:
Sends £90 [for experiments on potatoes]. Sorry JT cannot get his varieties well enough known to ensure large sale.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 74
Summary:
Thanks FD for his excellent corrections [to MS of Earthworms].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22–3 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 75
Summary:
Is sending chapter [of Earthworms] for FD to look over.
Comments on FD’s work on movements of mould.
Is glad to hear about Julius von Sachs and the circumnutation theory.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 76
Summary:
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
26 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 351
Summary:
Cannot discuss HMW’s essay. Does not believe there has been progress in all organisms. There has been much degradation, as in parasites.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 77
Summary:
Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].
Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 27 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 78
Summary:
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 79
Summary:
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
Contributor:
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