From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 76
Summary:
Sends further chapters of Earthworms for correction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
26 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 351
Summary:
Cannot discuss HMW’s essay. Does not believe there has been progress in all organisms. There has been much degradation, as in parasites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 77
Summary:
Dispatches chapters six and seven [of Earthworms].
Asks for any opinions on V. Hensen and his book, Physiologie der Zeugung [1881], which seems interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 27 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 78
Summary:
Thanks FD for corrections [for Earthworms].
Discusses experiments on absorption in Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 79
Summary:
CD looks forward with dread to future as he does not have the strength to begin any new subject requiring much work.
Plans to look again at the absorption by roots and root-hairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 8 July 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 82v
Summary:
A stock certificate has arrived for FD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dawson
Date:
[3 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116v
Summary:
Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 [June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 80
Summary:
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 6 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 81
Summary:
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 104
Summary:
Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.
Describes events at Patterdale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[16 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 98v
Summary:
Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 513–15
Summary:
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 516–17
Summary:
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 83
Summary:
Ernst Haeckel wants to go to Ceylon to examine Medusae and Radiolariae, CD has offered him £100.
Is working on revises of Earthworms.
Has seen a pied flycatcher for the first time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 84
Summary:
Comments on FD’s notions about movement of multicellular and unicellular organisms.
Comments on an interesting letter received from J. B. Hannay [see 13222] which leads CD to speculate on the possibility of organisms inhabiting a red hot earth under great pressure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 302
Summary:
CD has offered Ernst Haeckel £100 but does not know where to get further aid. Sorry to hear about Du Bois-Reymond, but is not in the least surprised about R. Virchow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Graham
Date:
3 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 144: 345
Summary:
Praises WG’s Creed of science.
He disagrees that the existence of natural laws implies purpose, but his "inmost conviction" is that "the Universe is not the result of chance". But then has horrid doubt whether convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from lower animals, are at all trustworthy.
Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 85
Summary:
Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.
Is going over revises of Earthworms.
Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 187
Summary:
Comments on her life of Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
18 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 94
Summary:
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
