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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].
Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.
Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.
Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.
Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.
Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.
Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].