Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.
Showing 1–20 of 26 items
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.
Wants some more rubber bands for his wrist.
Has CD made arrangements with D. Appleton for Movement in plants? CD’s instructions about the index have been forwarded.
Asks whether CD would object to a deputation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union.
Observations on earthworms.
Thanks RPH for the trouble he has taken on behalf of the Down Friendly Society.
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
Writes about worm-castings; tells WED not to bother with samples from Beaulieu Abbey.
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
Improvement in orthography would be national benefit, but cannot contribute to WV’s paper.
Sends four wrist bands, and advice on putting them on. George is well. Can easily get worm castings. Lilly and Mlle Wild arrived in a storm to stay the night. Is much amused by Sedgwick’s ferocious letter about Vestiges.
Would be glad to have a set of plates for Movement in plants.
Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.
Found worm-casts atop a 2555–foot hill.
Comments on WB’s paper ["Über Variabilitäts-Erscheinungen an den Blüthen von Primula elatior und eine Anwendung des biogenetischen Grundgesetzes", Bot. Ztg. 38 (1880): 577–80].
Sends his paper ["Oceans and continents", Geol. Mag. 7 (1880): 385–91].
Thinks John Murray of Edinburgh goes out of his way to deny an elevation/subsidence view of coral reefs ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1878–80): 505–18].
Invitation to an address by T. H. Huxley at Josiah Mason's Science College in Birmingham.
Supervising French translation of Movement in plants. Why does not CD consider spontaneous movements of flower parts, which EMH sees also as circumnutation?
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Aug 1880 and a cheque for the balance due to CD.
Asks whether CD would care to preface the letter of Burt G. Wilder which he forwarded for publication ["Two kinds of vivisection", Nature 22 (1880): 517–18].