From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Trübner & Co.
Date:
9 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.616)
Summary:
Orders International scientific directory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112)
Summary:
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 222
Summary:
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 212
Summary:
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hanson Greville (Greville) Williams
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 20)
Summary:
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
G. Clinch
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 260
Summary:
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 469
Summary:
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 253
Summary:
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 348–9
Summary:
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970)
Summary:
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925)
Summary:
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 61
Summary:
Birthday congratulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Arthur Reade
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 292
Summary:
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707)
Summary:
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 353–353/1
Summary:
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 2
Summary:
Asks for autographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, W. E.12
- Crick, W. D.10
- Romanes, G. J.8
- Darwin, G. H.7
- Meldola, Raphael7
- Johnson, Henry (b)4
- Ogle, William4
- Ambrose, J. L.3
- Groves, Henry3
- Holub, Emil3
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Huxley, T. H.3
- Moseley, H. N.3
- Müller, Fritz3
- Simpson, J. F.3
- Allen, Grant2
- Barrois, Jules2
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Brunton, T. L.2
- Collier, John2
- Cooper, J. D.2
- Dew-Smith, A. G.2
- Dohrn, Anton2
- Ernst, Adolf2
- Evans, Edith2
- Farrer, T. H.2
- Fayrer, Joseph2
- Frankland, Edward2
- Galton, Francis2
- Gilbert, J. H.2
- Hadley, Margaret2
- Hooker, Hyacinth2
- Horsfall, William2
- Hunter, Edith2
- Jardine, Hyacinth2
- Kennard, C. A.2
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- Naudin, C. V.2
- Rich, Anthony2
- Sanborn, F. B.2
- Sinclair, James2
- Smith, C. A.2
- Steffen, Max2
- Symonds, Hyacinth2
- Taylor, Agnes2
- Trelease, William2
- Tyndall, John2
- Unidentified2
- Van Dyck, W. T.2
- Vines, S. H.2
- Wallich, G. C.2
- Astley, G. S.1
- Axon, W. E. A.1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Baynes, H. M. W.1
- Bonney, T. G.1
- Breitenbach, Wilhelm1
- Brooks, W. C.1
- Brown, John1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Clark, Andrew1
- Clinch, G.1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Crawte, G. F.1
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Dicey, A. V.1
- Donnelly, Ignatius1
- Eimer, Theodor1
- Ellis, J. W.1
- Freeman-Mitford, A. B.1
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Grieve, Symington1
- Haberlandt, Gottlieb1
- Hewett, Joseph1
- Hopkins, A. N.1
- Horner, K. M.1
- Jenner, William1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kendall, J. D.1
- Kepley, A. H.1
- Leng, H. H.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Loct, Mr1
- Lyell, J. C.1
- Lyell, K. M.1
- Merighi, Giuseppe1
- Miser, A. H.1
- Mitford, A. B.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Neumayr, Melchior1
- Newberry, W. H.1
- Nicholson, G. S.1
- Philippi, Federico1
- Porter, James1
- Pye-Smith, P. H.1
- Reade, A. A.1
- Rice, Allen Thorndike1
- Schneider, Hugo1
- Sclater, P. L.1
- Sorby, H. C.1
- Souza Corrêa, Arthur de1
- Stephen, Leslie1
- Surman, F. W.1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Thompson, D’A. W.1
- Thompson, H. Y.1
- Todd, J. E.1
- Torbitt, James1
- Trübner & Co.1
- Watson, William1
- White, Walter1
- Williams, Greville1
- Williams, James1
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society12
- B. Altman (dealers)1
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek1
- Biblioteca Communale Ariostea1
- Bodleian Libraries1
- Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library, Bromley2
- Cambridge University Library131
- Christie’s (dealers)2
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University2
- Department of Rare Books, McGill University Library1
- Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library1
- English Heritage, Down House, Downe1
- Gene Kritsky(private collection)1
- Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History2
- Huntington Library6
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College3
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road2
- Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)1
- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums1
- Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas1
- Library, St George’s College1
- Minnesota Historical Society1
- National Library of Scotland2
- Natural History Museum and Archives2
- Národní Muzeum2
- Princeton University Library1
- Private collection (N 22003 and N 22004)1
- Private collection (N 22139)1
- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond1
- Smithsonian Libraries2
- State Darwin Museum1
- Surrey Record Office1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The British Library3
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester1
- The Morgan Library and Museum, New York1
- UCL Library Services1
- Wellcome Library1
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