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DCP-LETT-13446F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 9)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13535

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 263
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13539

From:
Douglas James Wintle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9] Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 132
Summary:

Earthworms leave their burrows on hearing rifle volleys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Douglas James Wintle
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

DJW’s facts are new and curious. CD has other reasons to believe he was wrong in doubting the effect on earthworms of beating the ground.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 9
Summary:

CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13541F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 98)
Summary:

Financial paperwork; pleased at news of Horace and Ida Darwin’s baby, Erasmus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10521)
Summary:

PG’s article in Encyclopaedia Britannica wonderfully well done ["Insectivorous plants", 9th ed., 13: 134–40].

Admires PG’s researches on chlorophyll in animal kingdom ["Observations on the physiology and histology of Convoluta Schultzii", Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. 28 (1878–9): 449–57].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13543

From:
Edward Parfitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 16
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms [fifth thousand].

Sends two of his papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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