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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[24 September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 21
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
28 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Galton, E. S.
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
10 September 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 46
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
14 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 147
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
13 September 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 270
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
20 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 271
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
21 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 272
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 603
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[6 September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 632
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936)
Summary:
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lamplugh Brougham Ballantine Dykes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 205–6
Summary:
Sends condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin. LBBD was a schoolfellow at Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Stephen Price
Date:
1 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
The Times , 5 September 1881, p. 10
Summary:
Regrets he cannot answer SP’s question on gnats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.597)
Summary:
Unable to contribute an essay to a symposium on the subject of vivisection. Objects to use of term "symposium".
Mentions articles of Hermann Müller.
Death of his brother Erasmus [26 Aug 1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:
2 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0021)
Summary:
Sends a copy of A. R. Wallace’s work [The geographical distribution of animals (1876)].
Advises Fd’AF on how to carry out his work, "Keep notes & go on accumulating facts". CD will write to J. D. Hooker about the plants Fd’AF has collected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 151
Summary:
Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
3 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 282
Summary:
Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.
Cannot answer question about dotterels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 and 4 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 532–5
Summary:
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 125
Summary:
Not intended to call vivisection article a symposium [Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–48].
Sympathy on death of Erasmus Darwin.
Trying some experiments with bees to test their direction-finding methods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988)
Summary:
Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6, 7 and 9 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 287
Summary:
Discusses some of his observations on the sleep movement in plants. Has been studying the leaflets of Crotalaria; has discovered they move to face the setting sun.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Aveling, E. B.1
- Bailey, Frederick1
- Breitenbach, Wilhelm1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Darwin, C. R.28
- Darwin, Emma8
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Dawson, John William1
- Dobson, William1
- Dykes, L. B. B.1
- Galton, E. S.1
- Hacon, W. M.4
- Haliburton, S. H.1
- Harmer, John1
- Haydon, G. H.1
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Hurndall, Frank1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Innes, J. B.2
- John Murray1
- King, George1
- McKibbin, John1
- More, A. G.1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von10
- Müller, Fritz1
- Nation, William1
- Price, John1
- Rich, Anthony1
- Roberts, James1
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Savile, B. W.2
- Selwyn, Alfred1
- Skertchly, S. B. J.1
- Skuthorpe, John1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Williams, S. H.1
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- Cambridge University Library51
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond8
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University2
- Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon2
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
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