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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[c. 1 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[14 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[11 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[7 or 11 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Munby, A. J.
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
24 October 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 47, 48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[28 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 148
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
2 October [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 273
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 274
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[9 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 275
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:
Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Erik Södling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 216
Summary:
Sends a likeness [missing] of a monstrous woman who may be considered as "Darwin’s lost link".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:
Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 103)
Summary:
Discusses division of Trust. Is concerned Bessy’s portion will be smaller than Henrietta's. Had a pleasant visit in Cambridge. There is a clerical error in the division of CD’s property.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 518
Summary:
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:
Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project