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DCP-LETT-13636

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 102
Summary:

Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-13639

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 103
Summary:

Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13640

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 104
Summary:

Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.

Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-13643

From:
James Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 42
Summary:

Are the animal and vegetable kingdoms so united as to be indistinguishable?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-13645F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:

Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13646

From:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 9
Summary:

Reports observations on curious cats that appear to be cat–rabbit hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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

DCP-LETT-13649

From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:

Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13650

From:
Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 31
Summary:

Argues that women are as regular "bread-winners" as men, though generally unrecognised as such, and that they possess the same qualities as men but lack the educational opportunities. Before women can be judged intellectually inferior to men they must share the same environment and opportunities. With "enlightened intellect, united with her wholesome moral nature" woman could help with the "propagation of the best and the survival of the fittest in the human species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13651

From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:

Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13652

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 142
Summary:

Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13672F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112)
Summary:

CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001250

From:
John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1882
Source of text:
MM/17/118, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001251

From:
Alexander William Williamson
To:
AW Williamson, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1882
Source of text:
MM/17/119, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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