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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.
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.
Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].
Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.
Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.
Cobaea fertilisation.
Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.
Appreciates what CD says about his writing on two diverse subjects. Argues for value of "interdisciplinary approach". Has CD seen the pamphlet, "Physics and ethics" which he co-authored with an anonymous friend?
On growth and development of Drosera.
Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
Invites him to lunch.
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
Responds to CD’s offer to pay for subscription to Kosmos.
Comments on his own honorarium for English edition of Erasmus Darwin. Success of German edition.
WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.
Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.
Asks CD to invite William James to stay before he returns to America.
Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.
Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.
