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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[24 September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 21
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
28 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Galton, E. S.
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
10 September 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
14 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 147
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
13 September 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 270
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
20 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 271
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
21 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 272
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 603
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[6 September 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 632
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936)
Summary:

JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lamplugh Brougham Ballantine Dykes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 205–6
Summary:

Sends condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin. LBBD was a schoolfellow at Shrewsbury.

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From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 151
Summary:

Condolences on the death of E. A. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
3 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 282
Summary:

Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.

Cannot answer question about dotterels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 and 4 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 532–5
Summary:

Praises JDH’s York address.

S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.

JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.

Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6, 7 and 9 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 287
Summary:

Discusses some of his observations on the sleep movement in plants. Has been studying the leaflets of Crotalaria; has discovered they move to face the setting sun.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 168–9
Summary:

Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.

JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.

Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 92
Summary:

Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1.: 109
Summary:

Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 87
Summary:

Condolences on death of Erasmus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 295
Summary:

Thanks for gift of Movement in plants.

Plans botanical research in Brazil.

Hermann von Jhering is conducting experiments on snakes.

WB obliged to work as newspaper correspondent.

Plans breeding experiments on dimorphic plants.

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