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DCP-LETT-12961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:

Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13157

From:
Carl Erik Södling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 216
Summary:

Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:

Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13325F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:

Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13340G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103)
Summary:

Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:

There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13368

From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:

Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13369

From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:

Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.

Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:

Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13373

From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 85
Summary:

WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13373F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Rick Northwood (private collection)
Summary:

Has resolved never to write for periodicals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13375

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 260
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.

Describes a worm from Ceylon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13376

From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:

Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shaw Billings
Date:
8 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:

Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13379A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63, 1988)
Summary:

Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13380

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A108
Summary:

Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13380F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Peter Price
Date:
[after 10 Oct 1881?]
Source of text:
Western Mail , 6 April 1883, p. 4
Summary:

Giving his opinion on the possible role of earthworms in the dilapidation of a pier in Llandaff Cathedral.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13381

From:
Anne Walbank Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 7
Summary:

On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13382

From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 14
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13383

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 188
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Condolences on death of Erasmus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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