From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:
Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[15 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 2
Summary:
Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 260
Summary:
Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:
Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 214–15
Summary:
H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 33
Summary:
Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 56
Summary:
Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.
His trip to Dalmatia.
German reception of Descent.
Mentions current work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Summary:
Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979)
Summary:
Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 99–100
Summary:
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
Contributor:
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From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 24
Summary:
Sends a paper on denudation ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 3 (1871): 153–90].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 13 (EH 88205911)
Summary:
Sends notes on left- and right-handedness from observations made on his eldest son as an infant.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 17
Summary:
Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 132
Summary:
His admiration for the papers of AG [see 8119].
Relates his recent discovery that earthworms have brought to surface no less than 161 tons of dry earth over an area of 10 acres, thus creating the conditions for significant denudation. Would welcome information about the persistence of ridges and furrows in old pasture lands ploughed centuries ago. Do they run down the slopes or transversely? Refers to [A. C.] Ramsay, [James] Croll, Elie de Beaumont, and [Henry] Johnson.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48)
Summary:
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Contributor:
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From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 25
Summary:
Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 64
Summary:
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 5
Summary:
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 133
Summary:
Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.
Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.
Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A42–3
Summary:
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
Contributor:
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