From:
Frances J. Hough; Frances J. Myers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 526
Summary:
Gives an account of the Syracuse Botanical Club and its activities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Henri Casimir (Jean-Henri) Fabre
Date:
21 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre
Summary:
Discusses JHF’s investigations of animals’ sense of direction. Suggests experiment involving magnetism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 358)
Summary:
Asks THH to sign a certificate of nomination to Geological Society for his son William, if an interest in geology is still enough to qualify for election.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.580)
Summary:
Describes difficulty of obtaining pigs for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 205)
Summary:
Has signed William Darwin’s certificate of nomination to Geological Society.
Gives details of his Fisheries appointment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
24 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AdeC for interesting letter. CD has been annoyed by the multitude of new terms lately invented in all branches of biology in Germany. What AdeC says about the word "purpose" made CD vow not to use it again, but it is difficult to cure oneself of a vicious habit and difficult to avoid for anyone who tries to make out the use of a structure.
Francis will write about the diagram [see 13642].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 172
Summary:
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (May 2007)
Summary:
Asks WSD to suspend the enclosed certificate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 203
Summary:
Apologises for his silence when Francis Darwin’s paper was read at the Linnean Society.
AG’s review of Movement in plants [Nation 32 (1881): 17–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.581)
Summary:
Has read with interest GJR’s review [of Samuel Butler, Unconscious memory (1880)] in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7]. Heroic of GJR to call down [Butler’s] revenge on his own head. Ernst Krause’s letter [Nature 23 (1880–1): 288] very good.
As magistrate, CD must enforce rules regarding infection in pigs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
28 Jan 1881
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/4)
Summary:
Thanks FMB for translation of Ernst Krause’s letter for Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130b)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s reviews [of Movement in plants] in the Journal and Nation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 21 (1881): 245–9 and Nation 32 (1881): 17–18], especially for AG’s comment about Frank Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36213)
Summary:
Sends copy of Nature in which EK’s letter, translated by Balfour, is printed. Thanks him. Now feels easy.
G. J. Romanes’ language in his review of Butler’s book [Unconscious memory] is perhaps too strong. Butler’s vanity is a "real psychological curiosity".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B152–3
Summary:
Further information about the pension with particular thanks to CD for his role.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Summary:
Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 173
Summary:
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
24 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
FD and CD have been interested in AdeC’s diagram for illustrating inheritance. The difficulty of estimating different qualities in oneself and others is very great. Encloses a diagram illustrating how FD compares himself with his parents. CD has filled in a comparison with his father. It shows he resembles his father more than FD resembles CD. [The qualities compared are: stature, hair, eyes, pulse, musical capacity, ability to draw, tendency toward biological sciences, tendency toward mathematical sciences, perseverence, memory, aptitude for foreign languages.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1881
Source of text:
MM/17/116, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 January 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 62, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project