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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.
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Will stay until London until after the Linnean Society meeting unless CD wants anything. Asks to send abstracts of papers. Has made short abstracts of papers for Nature.
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.
Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].
Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.
Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
Thanks CD for a copy of his book [Movement in plants].
Thanks for Movement in plants; particularly supports indirect rather than direct action of light and gravity on plants.
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
Recommends letters by William Topley in Geological Magazine. WT discusses past distribution of oceans and continents.
THH will be at Kensington.
He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.