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DCP-LETT-13232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 July [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.594)
Summary:

Is returning to Down.

Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
5 Aug 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.595)
Summary:

CD does not lend money, but he encloses a cheque as a present.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.596)
Summary:

Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].

Comments on John Collier’s portrait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.597)
Summary:

Unable to contribute an essay to a symposium on the subject of vivisection. Objects to use of term "symposium".

Mentions articles of Hermann Müller.

Death of his brother Erasmus [26 Aug 1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
12 Oct 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Owes much to Birmingham and great honour conferred on him, but cannot write what RLT wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.598)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
[after 6 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.602)
Summary:

Asks her to translate a letter by W. F. P. Pfeffer. Mentions views of Julius von Wiesner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet
Date:
2 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.599)
Summary:

Thanks LJJ for informing him of error [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13456

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Foster Barham Zincke
Date:
3 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thinks the celts [prehistoric tools] on the pan could not have been buried wholly by worms.

As for large size of Arctic mammals, CD suggests it is an advantage in retaining warmth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lawrence John Jones, 4th baronet
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.600)
Summary:

Explains source of error [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
12 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.601)
Summary:

Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603)
Summary:

Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Douglas James Wintle
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

DJW’s facts are new and curious. CD has other reasons to believe he was wrong in doubting the effect on earthworms of beating the ground.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
10 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.604)
Summary:

Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Preston Tilt
Date:
16 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.605)
Summary:

Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
17 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606)
Summary:

Asks him to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
[4 Aug 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD wants to see TLB before he leaves London. Much obliged for his aid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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