From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106)
Summary:
Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 173: 10
Summary:
Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Summary:
Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 100
Summary:
Trying to get some Darwinians into the Institut de France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 104: 176–7
Summary:
Politics at Kew led to a letter of thanks to CD from the First Commissioner for his gift.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 172: 18
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Sends preferred address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 95: 545
Summary:
CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 323
Summary:
Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dixon Kendall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 5
Summary:
Suggests that the tendency of the left arm to move with the right leg (and vice versa) during walking is a rudiment of quadrupedal locomotion and thus bears on the descent of man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 113
Summary:
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Sinclair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 174
Summary:
JS is proposing to write a detailed history of the polled Aberdeen breed of cattle [James Macdonald and James Sinclair, History of polled Aberdeen or Angus cattle (1882)] and would be grateful for any instances of hornless breeds known to CD; in particular asks his opinion on the cause of the peculiarity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Yates Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 178: 110
Summary:
Sends a letter [missing] from a Mr Moorhouse on lapwing behaviour that makes earthworms rise to surface.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 102
Summary:
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 103
Summary:
Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 104
Summary:
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 42
Summary:
Are the animal and vegetable kingdoms so united as to be indistinguishable?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:
Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:
Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:
Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 142
Summary:
Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, W. E.12
- Darwin, G. H.7
- Crick, W. D.6
- Meldola, Raphael4
- Ogle, William4
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Johnson, Henry (b)3
- Simpson, J. F.3
- Ambrose, J. L.2
- Barrois, Jules2
- Brunton, T. L.2
- Cooper, J. D.2
- Dew-Smith, A. G.2
- Evans, Edith2
- Fayrer, Joseph2
- Hadley, Margaret2
- Hunter, Edith2
- Kennard, C. A.2
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- Moseley, H. N.2
- Naudin, C. V.2
- Rich, Anthony2
- Smith, C. A.2
- Taylor, Agnes2
- Trelease, William2
- Van Dyck, W. T.2
- Vines, S. H.2
- Allen, Grant1
- Astley, G. S.1
- Axon, W. E. A.1
- Baynes, H. M. W.1
- Bonney, T. G.1
- Breitenbach, Wilhelm1
- Brooks, W. C.1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Clark, Andrew1
- Clinch, G.1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Collier, John1
- Crawte, G. F.1
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Dicey, A. V.1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Ernst, Adolf1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Freeman-Mitford, A. B.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Gilbert, J. H.1
- Groves, Henry1
- Haberlandt, Gottlieb1
- Hewett, Joseph1
- Holub, Emil1
- Hooker, Hyacinth1
- Hopkins, A. N.1
- Horsfall, William1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Jardine, Hyacinth1
- Jenner, William1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kendall, J. D.1
- Kepley, A. H.1
- Kovalevsky, V. O.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Miser, A. H.1
- Mitford, A. B.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Neumayr, Melchior1
- Newberry, W. H.1
- Nicholson, G. S.1
- Pye-Smith, P. H.1
- Reade, A. A.1
- Rice, Allen Thorndike1
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Sanborn, F. B.1
- Schneider, Hugo1
- Sinclair, James1
- Sorby, H. C.1
- Souza Corrêa, Arthur de1
- Steffen, Max1
- Stephen, Leslie1
- Surman, F. W.1
- Symonds, Hyacinth1
- Thompson, D’A. W.1
- Thompson, H. Y.1
- Torbitt, James1
- Tyndall, John1
- Williams, James1