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DCP-LETT-13334

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 182
Summary:

Discusses financial affairs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
16 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 183
Summary:

A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

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DCP-LETT-13342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 536–7
Summary:

Comte [de Paris] will have plants next summer.

Arruda Furtado will send his mountain plants from Azores.

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DCP-LETT-13345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Watkin Frank (Frank) Hurndall
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 146
Summary:

No frogs or toads are able to live in completely closed holes. Cites experiment by William Buckland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
20 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 5
Summary:

Division of CW’s share [of E. A. Darwin’s estate]. Investment advice.

Recounts his memories of their mother and of her death. Remembers "her black velvet gown and her work table and the death scene", but cannot remember her face. Remembers that Caroline "always acted like a mother" to him and Catherine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 122v
Summary:

Although he agrees with the object of HS’s league he will not join until he has seen how it works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
28 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 303
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s paper [‘Further notes on the pollination of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus’, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1880): 617–39]. ‘What an inaccurate man Mr Thomas Meehan is.’ Interested in further observations on Pronuba.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
[after 28 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 113v
Summary:

Knows nothing of AGM’s work and is not personally acquainted with him so he cannot provide a testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:

Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:

Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.

G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Walbank Buckland
Date:
10 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 176
Summary:

Does not believe imagination of mother can affect new-born infant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 170
Summary:

Thanks TLB for the collection of his writings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
13 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 33
Summary:

Says that salt water kills earthworms.

Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 86
Summary:

Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".

Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:

Visiting his son Horace.

Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.

Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?

Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].

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DCP-LETT-13422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 87
Summary:

Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 146: 19
Summary:

Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 358
Summary:

Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13433

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 25 Oct 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 296
Summary:

Has no corrections. Pleased at sale of book [Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
P. R. Head
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 7
Summary:

Thanks for errata [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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