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DCP-LETT-13436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
P. R. Head
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 7
Summary:

Thanks for errata [in Earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13437

From:
Edward Lovett Henn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 142
Summary:

Note on habits of earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13438

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 271
Summary:

Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
28 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Has looked at BJS’s grapes. Can give no explanation of the case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
28 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 88
Summary:

Earthworms is selling well.

Discussed how to repeat some of their plant experiments while in Cambridge.

Comments on Julius Wiesner’s views on plant movement.

S. H. Vines was very much surprised at the action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of Euphorbia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13441

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 53
Summary:

Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13441A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 419–20
Summary:

Thanks CD for letter of 10 September [13326]

and for copy of Nature.

Reports on Lagerstroemia experiments.

Has been making observations on what happens to plants following heavy rain. Sends CD three specimens to show how dirt attaches to the undersides of leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 542–3
Summary:

Profuse thanks for plants.

Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13443

From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 15
Summary:

Marine annelids are ingenious builders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13444

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0023)
Summary:

Is glad Fd’AF will find Wallace’s work useful [see 13313].

Has examined the egg-cases of Blatta and suspects the white matter may be cement or plaster. If Fd’AF observes similar cases the fact would be worth publishing as a good instance of skill in protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13445

From:
Edward Parfitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 15
Summary:

Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13446

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
The Edinburgh chair of natural history, testimonials in favor of E. Ray Lankester , London [1881], p. 18
Summary:

Testimonial for ERL, who is a candidate for the Chair of Natural History in Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13474F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 69
Summary:

Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.

Contributor:
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