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DCP-LETT-10813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530)
Summary:

Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11743F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12382

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[17 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578)
Summary:

Asks him to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12959

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

DCP-LETT-12961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:

Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
1 and 6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sophie Kowalevski collections, box 3)
Summary:

Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.

Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:

Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".

Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12966

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
[5] Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 127
Summary:

T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 169
Summary:

About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 170
Summary:

Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.

Discusses investments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 58
Summary:

Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36211)
Summary:

CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:

Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 153: 89
Summary:

Seeks R. B. Litchfield’s advice about publishing a translation of a letter and article by E. Krause [answering Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cecilia Elizabeth Gore; Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
Summary:

CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12984

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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