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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug 1881
Source of text:
C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911)
Summary:

Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006)
Summary:

Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Rick Northwood (private collection)
Summary:

Has resolved never to write for periodicals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970)
Summary:

Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Mar [1860–1]
Source of text:
King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
Summary:

Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 1836?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626)
Summary:

[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?]
Source of text:
B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982)
Summary:

Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Mar [1843-82]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Summary:

Regrets not having a duplicate of one of his books to give away. "You will before long no doubt be able to borrow a copy."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:

Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 May [1869-82]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Aug [1843-68]
Source of text:
Daniel V. Grossman (private collection)
Summary:

Declines invitation to ride because he is "so very subject to headache".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Dec [1855-7]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 93 (photocopy)
Summary:

Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1842–82]
Source of text:
eBay (April 2001)
Summary:

Will be glad to see recipient and Mr Morris at Down the following day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1852-3]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Jan [1843-6 or 1856-69]
Source of text:
Edward Ford (private collection)
Summary:

Obliged for memoir with illustrations on most interesting point [unspecified] to occur in many years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project