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DCP-LETT-13626

From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 172: 18
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Sends preferred address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13629

From:
William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 323
Summary:

Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13630

From:
John Dixon Kendall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 5
Summary:

Suggests that the tendency of the left arm to move with the right leg (and vice versa) during walking is a rudiment of quadrupedal locomotion and thus bears on the descent of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13634

From:
James Sinclair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 174
Summary:

JS is proposing to write a detailed history of the polled Aberdeen breed of cattle [James Macdonald and James Sinclair, History of polled Aberdeen or Angus cattle (1882)] and would be grateful for any instances of hornless breeds known to CD; in particular asks his opinion on the cause of the peculiarity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13635

From:
Henry Yates Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 178: 110
Summary:

Sends a letter [missing] from a Mr Moorhouse on lapwing behaviour that makes earthworms rise to surface.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13636

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 102
Summary:

Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13639

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 103
Summary:

Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13640

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 104
Summary:

Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.

Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13643

From:
James Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 42
Summary:

Are the animal and vegetable kingdoms so united as to be indistinguishable?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13645F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:

Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13649

From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:

Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13651

From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:

Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13652

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 142
Summary:

Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13653

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 153
Summary:

Has observed earthworms drawing pine needles into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13654F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108)
Summary:

Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13655

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 143
Summary:

Declines CD’s generous offer of assistance with publishing costs of Weismann’s Studies, but would welcome his help in getting elected to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13656

From:
Frederic William Surman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123
Summary:

FWS is applying for a position and wants a character reference.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13660

From:
Charles Allen Thorndike (Allen) (Thorndike) Rice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 134
Summary:

The editor of North American Review asks CD to write an article in support of systematic observations of mental development in infants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13663

From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 246, 248
Summary:

Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13664

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 144
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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