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DCP-LETT-13561

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolai Krohn
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:

"The number of worms in your garden is astonishing … it will be an interesting observation, how soon the land is again stocked with worms, & whether the grass grows better before this happens. – I neglected to observe whether worms distruct [disturb?] the roots of grasses. – You will probably be able to borrow … my book On the Formation of Vegetable Mould … in which … you will find a good deal about the natural history of worms."

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DCP-LETT-13563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Surman
Date:
19 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.607)
Summary:

Asks for personal information about FWS, former employee of E. A. Darwin. [FWS is applying for position at British Museum.]

Contributor:
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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-13569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13570

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:
20 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR (CD library— Index Kewensis tom. 1)
Summary:

Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13571

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
A. C. Seward ed. 1909 , p. 279
Summary:

Thanks EBW for his curious case of mimicry in Scyllaea, which parallels that observed by Albert Günther in Hippocampus.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ford Robinson (William) (Ford) Stanley
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 490
Summary:

Comments on WFRS’s book [Properties and motions of fluids (1881)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13574A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nils Adolf Erik (Adolf) (Erik) Nordenskiöld, baron
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy of publication about the Vega voyage [The voyage of the Vega (1881)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13574B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 36)
Summary:

CD again has the pleasure of accepting another grand present, Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere (1881).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
22 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/21/105)
Summary:

Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Surman
Date:
22 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.608)
Summary:

Case is hopeless since applicant [for position at British Museum] must not be over thirty years old.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13578F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[after 25 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:

Declines to write testimonial for J. C. Ewart.

Says if W. C. McIntosh ‘were to apply again, I could not refuse to allow him to use again my former testimonial’.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
27 Dec 1881
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Congratulates JP on marriage of daughter.

Consoles him on his poor health.

Death of Mrs Smith a severe loss.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13582A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Víctor López-Seoane
Date:
27 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Instituto de Estudios Coruñeses José Cornide
Summary:

CD is unable to give the desired information relating to embryology of the Vertebrata. He advises the procuring of F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology, in two volumes [1880–1], which he believes to be the most valuable biological work in many years.

Hopes to find time to read VLS’s essays.

Discussion of the problem of naming species. [See 13568.]

Contributor:
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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-13587

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 340
Summary:

Comments on JJW’s observations on mule

and hermaphroditism in hybrid moths.

Contributor:
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