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DCP-LETT-13214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Ballantyne Hannay
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.592)
Summary:

Suggests modification in JBH’s experiment on formation of diamonds.

Speculates about chemical products of constituents of living organisms when subjected to heat and pressure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13214F

From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
Haslemere Educational Museum (LD-8-892-P443–4)
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s sympathy for James Croll; George Howard Darwin’s signature would have been welcome.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364)
Summary:

Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13216

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 115
Summary:

Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
25 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.593)
Summary:

Congratulates him on Mastodon discovery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
25 June 1881
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
Summary:

EH’s scheme to visit Ceylon an excellent one. Has written to Huxley about getting money from Royal Society. If funds are unavailable, would like to subscribe £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13219

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
26 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks EH and Ernst Abbe in connection with microscope for his son [Francis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 83
Summary:

Ernst Haeckel wants to go to Ceylon to examine Medusae and Radiolariae, CD has offered him £100.

Is working on revises of Earthworms.

Has seen a pied flycatcher for the first time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13220F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 76
Summary:

Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is glad the portrait [of CD by John Collier] has been arranged; suggests dates, but feels he should have no say in the subscriptions or remuneration.

Thinks the Lakes are beautiful.

Is reading W. Graham’s The creed of science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13222

From:
James Ballantyne Hannay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 99
Summary:

Experiments on change of state in albumen under high temperature and pressure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13223

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 211)
Summary:

Has heard from Haeckel the story of refusal [by Humboldt fund] of Berlin Academy to support him because he was supporter of Darwin. R. Virchow has been so unfair to Haeckel that THH is inclined to think it is a true account. But obtaining the funds in England is extremely difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13224

From:
Edward James Justinian George (Edward) (James) Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 201
Summary:

Remembers being taken by CD, as a Shrewsbury senior, on a botanical collecting trip.

Sends a portrait [of Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848)?] from an old portfolio.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13225

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 84
Summary:

Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.

Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 302
Summary:

CD has offered Ernst Haeckel £100 but does not know where to get further aid. Sorry to hear about Du Bois-Reymond, but is not in the least surprised about R. Virchow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
29 June 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 189–190)
Summary:

CD will soon finish corrections [of Earthworms] for printer, and then clean sheets will be sent to JVC for translation of the book and to Ernst Krause. The subject has been a "hobby-horse" with CD, and he has perhaps treated it in foolish detail. Has told Krause he does not think any part of the MS suitable for Kosmos, but Krause must decide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000954

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 June 1881
Source of text:
MM/15/8, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC689

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mr Sereno Watson
Date:
26 June 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 64, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-81-06-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Dietrich Brandis
Date:
June 1881
Source of text:
Index to the proceedings of the Government of India, Home Department, Forests, July-December1881, National Archives of India, New Delhi
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-06-06

From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 June 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Initial part of the letter found with a specimen of Eucalyptus siderophloia (MEL 231683)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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