From:
Montagu Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 109
Summary:
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 369
Summary:
Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.
Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B68–71
Summary:
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 112
Summary:
Has written to Balfour concerning the Butler affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 371
Summary:
Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 86)
Summary:
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 255
Summary:
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 25
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances J. Hough; Frances J. Myers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 526
Summary:
Gives an account of the Syracuse Botanical Club and its activities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 205)
Summary:
Has signed William Darwin’s certificate of nomination to Geological Society.
Gives details of his Fisheries appointment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 203
Summary:
Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.
AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B152–3
Summary:
Further information about the pension with particular thanks to CD for his role.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Summary:
Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:
Worm observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:
Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 406–7
Summary:
Describes variability in the stamens and pollen of Lagerstroemia, which CD spoke of in Forms of flowers.
Also reports on similar phenomena in Pontederiacea (Heteranthera reniformis).
Has received from Paul Mayer an interesting paper on metamorphosis in Palaemonetes varians, which is also being studied by J. E. V. Boas in Denmark. Shows differences between larval development in Danish forms and those found in southern Italy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 77
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on Movement in plants.
Sends System der Ascrapeden [1880].
Describes work on Challenger Medusae.
Comments on success of CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library316
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College5
- Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon2
- Smithsonian Libraries2
- Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere1
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