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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 191–192)
Summary:

Delay in publication [of Earthworms] vexes CD, as he likes to throw a subject off his mind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36216)
Summary:

Publication of Earthworms delayed, but will send sheets to EK when he receives them [so that he can decide about publishing extracts in Kosmos].

Thanks for "Die Gegenwart".

"’Instinct’ of plants" is a most puzzling problem.

Does not see how mind can be defined "if we subtract consciousness".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 516
Summary:

Hastens to assure CD that his book [Earthworms] will be published as soon as possible, since CD wishes it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 132
Summary:

The material for his Australian aborigines was collected by his daughter, who had lived among them from age three to fifteen.

Will try to verify a story he heard that there are pouched or marsupial rabbits in Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Lincoln Jellinek
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 104
Summary:

Asks whether CD believes in the immortality of the soul.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Lincoln Jellinek
Date:
[after 30 July 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 104v
Summary:

Regrets he cannot answer ELJ’s question in a note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Gaunson
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.65-6, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Bent
Date:
30 July 1881
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.66, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project