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DCP-LETT-13254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
28 July 1881
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Thanks JS for essays. CD read the French abstracts [of "Hemisepius", K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. (Naturvidensk. Math. Afd.) 5th ser. 10 (1875): 463–82, and "Sepiadarium og Idiosepius", K. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. (Naturvidensk. Math. Afd.) 6th ser. 1 (1880–5): 211–42]. Hectocotylisation has always astonished him.

Wishes JS believed in evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13255

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 515
Summary:

Surprised by CD’s intention to publish [Earthworms] so soon. Remonstrates against doing so. Asks deferment until October to co-ordinate with American publication and ensure best profit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13256

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
29 July 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 387–8)
Summary:

CD thought it was understood that he wanted to publish [Earthworms] at once, but as Murray "has the risk" CD must yield, though it destroys all his satisfaction in the book to have the publication hanging over him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13257

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 42
Summary:

Points out what he believes to be two errors in CD’s paper on inheritance [Nature 24 (1881): 257; Collected papers 2: 230–1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13258

From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114a
Summary:

Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13259

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

DCP-LETT-13260

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

DCP-LETT-13261

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

DCP-LETT-13262

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

DCP-LETT-13263

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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DCP-LETT-13264

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

DCP-LETT-13265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
31 July 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 389–90)
Summary:

CD obliged to Murray for yielding to his wish for prompt publication [of Earthworms] but now uneasy about the risk. If Murray feels it will sell badly at this season he is unwilling to bear the responsibility. Murray should decide as he sees fit. CD is no longer so sulky as when he last wrote.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13266

From:
Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 156
Summary:

Forwards to CD the diploma of "Presidente Onorario degli Anziana Pitagorica".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 July [1881?]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?)
Summary:

Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001029

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
14 July 1881
Source of text:
MM/16/54, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC691

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mr Sereno Watson
Date:
28 July 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 66, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-81-07-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
July 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1877-82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-07-11

From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 July 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-07-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
12 July 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 310
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-07-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Gaunson
Date:
21 July 1881
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.65, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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