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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 77
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes.

Comments on Movement in plants.

Sends System der Ascrapeden [1880].

Describes work on Challenger Medusae.

Comments on success of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
Summary:

Asks EH to call on Zeiss and to help arrange for microscope for Francis Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks for pt 6 of [Australian orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 145
Summary:

Contemptuous of Samuel Butler.

Has read that Huxley will be Inspector of Fisheries.

When CD visits in spring, he will acquaint him with legalities of Worthing house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project