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DCP-LETT-13419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 55)
Summary:

Is in Cambridge with his son, resting

and reading F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology [1880–1].

Sent FM a copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:

Visiting his son Horace.

Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.

Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?

Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13421

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 267
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 87
Summary:

Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13423

From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036)
Summary:

Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-10-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 October 1881
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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