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DCP-LETT-13269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2)
Summary:

Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
10 Sept 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no : 54)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s account of Pandanus and Oxalis to Nature ["Leaves injured at night by free radiation", Nature 24 (1881): 459].

Is crossing heterostyled plants.

Hopes to get his notes on bloom together.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 55)
Summary:

Is in Cambridge with his son, resting

and reading F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology [1880–1].

Sent FM a copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5)
Summary:

Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
13 Nov 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 56)
Summary:

Is experimenting with effect of ammonium carbonate on chlorophyll and roots, but finds the results confusing.

Julius von Wiesner has published a book reinterpreting CD’s observations in Movement in plants [see 13422].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 57)
Summary:

Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.

FM’s article on Crotalaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baily
Date:
28 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50957 f. 44)
Summary:

Statement about a beetle-hunting worm is new to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Jan 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10: 58)
Summary:

On F. M. Balfour.

Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.

FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13745

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Groves
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46917: 65)
Summary:

Thanks HG for kind offer. CD is not well enough to examine the Utricularia, but will try to look at the Nitella.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Groves
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46917: 66)
Summary:

Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.

CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Sept [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5)
Summary:

Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-86-02-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Sir John Lubbock
Date:
10 February 1886
Source of text:
British Library, London, Sherborn Autographs, VII - Science, additional manuscripts 42581, f. 177
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12393

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B65–6
Summary:

Asks CD for reference to the edition of Kosmos that contains the original of Ernst Krause’s article on Dr Erasmus Darwin. There are serious differences between the translation by W. S. Dallas and the Feb [1879] article by Krause on which CD, in the preface to Erasmus Darwin, says it was based. SB notes in particular that the concluding sentence of the translation, which is clearly aimed at [SB’s] Evolution, old and new, is not in the original. Since readers will assume the text of Erasmus Darwin was written before his book appeared, SB asks for an explanation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
3 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 84–5)
Summary:

Krause altered the MS [of his essay on Erasmus Darwin] considerably before sending it to be translated. This is a common practice, but CD now regrets he did not state in his preface that the article had been modified. The translation had been arranged before SB’s book [Evolution, old and new] was announced.

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DCP-LETT-12791

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434 ff. 292–3); Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Wallace Papers WP/6/4/1)
Summary:

High praise for Island life; ARW’s "best book". Encloses notes of comments and criticism. Hooker pleased by dedication.

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
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