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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?
Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.
Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Birthday congratulations.
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Asks for autographs.
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.