From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 146: 19
Summary:
Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 164: 219
Summary:
Describes worms blocking their burrows with mulberries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Benjamin Dancer
Date:
25 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (John Benjamin Dancer MS 1052 1.3)
Summary:
Informs JBD that his book [Earthworms] profited from JBD’s interesting notice ["On the transfer of subsoil to the surface", Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. 16: 247–8].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 522
Summary:
Second thousand [of Earthworms] has been exhausted and 3d is being printed. Asks CD to send corrections to the printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl August (Karl) Möbius
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 200
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 358
Summary:
Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 25 Oct 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 296
Summary:
Has no corrections. Pleased at sale of book [Earthworms].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 29
Summary:
Urges CD to find God.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 170–1
Summary:
On plants CD requested.
Frank should work on Dischidia.
Work on palms.
Overloaded with reading.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
P. R. Head
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 7
Summary:
Thanks for errata [in Earthworms].
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Lovett Henn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 142
Summary:
Note on habits of earthworms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 271
Summary:
Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
28 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Has looked at BJS’s grapes. Can give no explanation of the case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 88
Summary:
Earthworms is selling well.
Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.
Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.
S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 53
Summary:
Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 419–20
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter of 10 September [13326]
and for copy of Nature.
Reports on Lagerstroemia experiments.
Has been making observations on what happens to plants following heavy rain. Sends CD three specimens to show how dirt attaches to the undersides of leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 542–3
Summary:
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 15
Summary:
Marine annelids are ingenious builders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0023)
Summary:
Is glad Fd’AF will find Wallace’s work useful [see 13313].
Has examined the egg-cases of Blatta and suspects the white matter may be cement or plaster. If Fd’AF observes similar cases the fact would be worth publishing as a good instance of skill in protection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Parfitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 15
Summary:
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Arruda Furtado, Francisco de3
- Bailey, Frederick2
- Berkeley, Miles1
- Beveridge, Peter1
- Billings, J. S.2
- Brown, John2
- Brunton, T. L.2
- Buckland, A. W.2
- Carter, R. B.2
- Chamberlain, J. H.1
- Cooke, R. F.7
- Croll, James1
- Dancer, J. B.1
- Darwin, C. R.90
- Darwin, Emma8
- Darwin, Francis4
- Darwin, G. H.9
- Darwin, Leonard4
- Darwin, Sara2
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Falck, Carl1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Fry, Edward1
- Galbraith, J. F.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Geikie, Archibald1
- Geikie, James1
- Graham, William1
- Hacon, W. M.3
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Head, P. R.1
- Hemsley, William1
- Henn, E. L.1
- Hensen, Victor1
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Hooker, Joseph3
- John Murray7
- Johnson, Henry (a)1
- Judd, J. W.1
- King, George1
- Kirkland, James1
- Lankester, E. R.3
- Litchfield, H. E.4
- McIntosh, W. C.2
- McKibbin, John2
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Morrah, Arthur1
- Moseley, H. N.2
- Mueller, Ferdinand von22
- Munby, A. J.1
- Möbius, Karl1
- Müller, Fritz2
- Newton, Alfred1
- Parfitt, Edward1
- Parkes, Henry1
- Pattrick, R. S.1
- Pfeffer, Wilhelm2
- Plimsoll, Joseph1
- Preyer, William1
- Price, Peter1
- Ralston, W. R. S.-1
- Ramsay, Edward3
- Rich, Anthony1
- Romanes, G. J.2
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Savile, B. W.2
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Södling, C. E.1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Tate, Ralph1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William1
- Unidentified1
- Vries, Hugo de2
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Wiesner, Julius4
- Wilson, Thomas1
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