Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.
Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].
Showing 21–40 of 43 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.
Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.
Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Wants Trifolium seed.
Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".
Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.
Replies to F. P. Cobbe’s letter [Times 19 Apr 1881] accusing CD of having misinformed his Swedish correspondent about the findings of the Royal Commission on vivisection.
Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
Cannot give lecture.
CD will not permit publication of his previous letter on vivisection.
Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,
and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.
Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.
Thanks for gift of JCL’s book on pigeons (J. C. Lyell 1881).
Declines to endorse it, because he lacks the time to read it with sufficient care.
Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.
Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.
Thanks for German translation of Movement in plants.
Glad Kosmos is to be continued [by Schweizerbart].
CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]