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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
4 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[11 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19] June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 266
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[9 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 630
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[30 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 631
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
21 June [1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 647
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530)
Summary:
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laura Mary Forster
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[11 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 158
Summary:
On flowers bending towards light reflected in a mirror.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 16
Summary:
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:
Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".
Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
20 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 145
Summary:
Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:
No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.
Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].
Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116
Summary:
Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June 1881
Source of text:
Francisco Ayala (private collection)
Summary:
Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dawson
Date:
[3 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116v
Summary:
Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 75
Summary:
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 [June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 80
Summary:
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 6 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 81
Summary:
Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].
Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Sirk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 36
Summary:
Austrian correspondent on proverbs, philosophy, and politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 44
Summary:
Invites CD to visit Rothamsted. The experimental plots are at their best "as illustrating the vast influence of external conditions on the character and results of the struggle between the numerous components of an established mixed herbage".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
