From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 5
Summary:
Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 114
Summary:
Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
28 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 335
Summary:
Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.
Comments on origin of life and natural theology.
Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937)
Summary:
Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jules Henri (Jules) Barrois
Date:
[after 6 Mar 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 28
Summary:
Strongly supports the proposed biological laboratory at Villefranche.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jenner
Date:
20 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 82
Summary:
Much regrets the state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henshaw Newberry
Date:
24 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 188
Summary:
Mechanism of flowers of Maranta has already been described by F. H. G. Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 105
Summary:
Requests snake poison for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thomson Van Dyck
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067)
Summary:
Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
4 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 367
Summary:
Sends signature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
6 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 368
Summary:
Sends his birth date.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Edward Armytage Axon
Date:
7 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 26
Summary:
Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
6 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.611), DAR 207: 4
Summary:
Accepts GJR’s offer to prepare sugar-cane paper for publication [Villa Franca and Glass, "New varieties of sugar-cane", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1880–2): 30–1]. Suggests introduction and outline.
Agrees with GJR on microscope for Grant Allen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a
Summary:
Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:
Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:
Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10522)
Summary:
Recommends PG for chair of natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
