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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[23 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
25 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[31 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Francis Wedgwood Sr
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
1 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 263
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 264
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[10 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 265
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Lippert
Date:
[May 1881 or later]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23)
Summary:
Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
13 [May] 1881
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for work sent by GdeS and A. F. Marion [L’évolution du règne végétal 1 (1881)]. CD greatly pleased at boldness with which GdeS expresses his belief in evolution. Some of GdeS’s countrymen have been "a little timid" on this head.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218)
Summary:
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 230: 83
Summary:
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Gilbert Whiteman
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 354
Summary:
Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich August Tscherning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 195
Summary:
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 May [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 224)
Summary:
Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 May [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/32)
Summary:
Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
8 May 1881
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:
Aware that AH thinks CD has done nothing to advance the good cause of the descent theory.
Obliged for gift of AH’s [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Contributor:
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- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)1
- Cambridge University Library40
- Huntington Library1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Maryland Historical Society1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond7
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- State Library Victoria1
- The British Library1
- UCL Library Services1
- Wellcome Library2
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