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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 3
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
16 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 February 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12–13 February [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
17 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 258
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 February 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 318
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 February [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1413
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
13 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 258: 871
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Ida
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
13 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1062
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Ida
To:
Litchfield, R. B.
Date:
8 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1088
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[February–June 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 872
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:

The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].

Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 177
Summary:

Discusses some business matters

and E. A. Darwin’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:

Worm observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:

Discusses possible investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:

Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:

Discusses investments.

The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:

Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 176
Summary:

Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.

Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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