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DCP-LETT-13631F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Whittaker Ellis, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Observer , 22 January 1882, p. 5
Summary:

Asking the lord mayor of London to call a public meeting concerning the persecution of the Jews in Russia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 51–52)
Summary:

Thanks JM for copy of Quarterly Review, with article on his worm book [Henry Wace, "Darwin on earthworms", Q. Rev. 153 (1882): 179–202].

Writer will change his mind on evolution. CD cannot think of any young worker in biology who is not convinced of the truth of evolution, though many believe that natural selection has not done much.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Date:
22 Jan 1882
Source of text:
B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982)
Summary:

Accepts election as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association [see 13615].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.613)
Summary:

Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.

Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Holub
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Národní Muzeum, Prague
Summary:

Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.569)
Summary:

Agrees about Grant Allen affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:

Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 12a
Summary:

Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13648F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sinclair
Date:
[28 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
National Livestock Journal , August 1882, p. 363
Summary:

His thoughts on the lack of horns in domesticated cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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