From:
George Webster Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 40
Summary:
Requests autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ford Robinson (William) (Ford) Stanley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 247
Summary:
Sends CD his book of experimental work on fluids [Experimental researches into the properties and motions of fluids (1881)].
Draws his attention to a particular passage on liquid behaviour which, he speculates, may relate to the form of some lower plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Wilder Cheshire
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 138
Summary:
Sends photograph of a wild goose that survived being shot by a nine-inch arrowhead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 103
Summary:
Seeks a testimonial for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 103v
Summary:
Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Preston Tilt
Date:
16 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.605)
Summary:
Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Nicolai Krohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 124
Summary:
Perchloride of mercury applied to his lawn destroyed thousands of earthworms, but ruined the grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
17 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606)
Summary:
Asks him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 173–4
Summary:
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 352
Summary:
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Valentine Riley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 158
Summary:
Concurs in CD’s criticism of Thomas Meehan [see 13360].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2)
Summary:
Can FG call on Monday evening?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolai Krohn
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:
"The number of worms in your garden is astonishing … it will be an interesting observation, how soon the land is again stocked with worms, & whether the grass grows better before this happens. – I neglected to observe whether worms distruct [disturb?] the roots of grasses. – You will probably be able to borrow … my book On the Formation of Vegetable Mould … in which … you will find a good deal about the natural history of worms."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Warner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 128
Summary:
Sends CD a pamphlet on muscular conditions expressive of states of the brain
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Surman
Date:
19 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.607)
Summary:
Asks for personal information about FWS, former employee of E. A. Darwin. [FWS is applying for position at British Museum.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 57)
Summary:
Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.
FM’s article on Crotalaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Seymour Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 173: 44
Summary:
Observations on rattlesnakes
and on tunnels built by Brazilian ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Pye-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 82
Summary:
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 34
Summary:
Thanks CD for his support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Víctor López-Seoane
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 108
Summary:
Asks CD for some references to aid his work. [Brief annotations for a reply by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Bailey, Frederick2
- Baily, Walter1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph1
- Browne, Walter Raleigh1
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Darwin, C. R.44
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Horace3
- Darwin, Ida1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Geikie, James1
- Günther, Albert2
- Hall, Arthur1
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Jackson, B. Daydon1
- Krohn, Nicolai1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Litchfield, H. E.5
- López-Seoane, Víctor1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Mitten, William1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von3
- Müller, Fritz1
- Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Paget, James1
- Powell, F. G. M.1
- Price, John1
- Ramsay, Edward2
- Retzius, Gustaf1
- Romanes, G. J.5
- Rue, Warren de la1
- Stanley, William Ford1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Surman, F. W.2
- Thiselton-Dyer, William2
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner2
- Tilt, A. P.1
- Vries, Hugo de2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Watson, Mr Sereno1
- Weir, J. J.1
- Wilson, E. B.1
- Wintle, D. J.1
- [Hooker, Joseph]1
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