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DCP-LETT-13088F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure
Date:
17 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Arch. de Saussure 227 f. 111)
Summary:

Thanks HdS for pebbles of Roman bricks. When he goes over MS [Earthworms] again, he will compare smoother ones with those having undergone attrition in gizzards of worms.

Has received book [La question du lac] sent by HdS.

Also sends photograph taken by Leonard Darwin of CD.

Requests photograph of HdS to add to his collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13089

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 314
Summary:

Reports the observations of Thomas Bridges on the Fuegian natives. Discusses especially the languages of the area.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13090

From:
Eben Jenks Loomis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Loomis-Wilder Family Papers (MS 496A) Series 2, Box 6, folder 19)
Summary:

Describes light-stimulated movement in fronds of the fern Asplenium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Mar 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 50)
Summary:

FM’s view on meaning of two-coloured stamens in many flowers; CD has been looking through his old notes on dimorphism for supporting evidence. Intends to send extract of FM’s letter to Nature or to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
20 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for BJS’s account of the Fuegians. CD would have predicted that "not all the missionaries in the world could have done what has been done".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Will proof-read his preface to Weismann’s Studien.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13)
Summary:

Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Marriage Wallis
Date:
22 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 279
Summary:

Comments on HMW’s discovery concerning growth of hair on human ears. Asks permission to publish fact.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 185–186)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for corrections of Movement in plants. Sends a clarifying sentence.

Earthworms nearly done – "a small book of little moment".

Reports his health is better than it was, "but I have little strength & feel very old".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13097

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896 , pp. 107–8
Summary:

Suggests transplanting plant ovaries to test Pangenesis.

None of the cats released in experiment found its way back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Mar 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.586)
Summary:

Discusses difficulties involved in plant experiment designed to test Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13099

From:
Henry Marriage Wallis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 16
Summary:

Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.

Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
29 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has received WBT’s fine work [Edward Blyth, The natural history of the cranes, enlarged and reprinted by WBT (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
29 Mar 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254 f. 104)
Summary:

Thanks EBT for gift of Anthropology [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Marriage Wallis
Date:
31 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 280
Summary:

Encourages HMW’s study of growth of hair on ears. Recommends he publish findings in Nature.

Comments on facts about goatsucker and dorkings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13141F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101)
Summary:

Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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