From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 8)
Summary:
Delighted to hear that HdeV intends working on the causes of variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Saint Pattrick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 30
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 94)
Summary:
Thanks for Worms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Frazelle Galbraith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 3
Summary:
Recounts a remarkable incident of development of worms in a barrel of wheat. Sends his account, having pondered CD’s view that plants and animals may have had a common ancestor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Brudenell Carter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 52
Summary:
Thanks for F. M. Balfour reference, which will serve purpose of his lecture on evolution of the eye.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 55)
Summary:
Is in Cambridge with his son, resting
and reading F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology [1880–1].
Sent FM a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 267
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 87
Summary:
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036)
Summary:
Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 164–5
Summary:
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 38, 38/1
Summary:
Will send 2d vol. [of his Pflanzenphysiologie (1881)].
CD has occasionally misinterpreted him in Movement in plants; by "after-working" (Nachwirkung) he means "after-working of preceding movements", not of the irritating cause [light].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 146: 19
Summary:
Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 164: 219
Summary:
Describes worms blocking their burrows with mulberries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Benjamin Dancer
Date:
25 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (John Benjamin Dancer MS 1052 1.3)
Summary:
Informs JBD that his book [Earthworms] profited from JBD’s interesting notice ["On the transfer of subsoil to the surface", Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. 16: 247–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 522
Summary:
Second thousand [of Earthworms] has been exhausted and 3d is being printed. Asks CD to send corrections to the printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl August (Karl) Möbius
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 200
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
25 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 358
Summary:
Further comments on JW’s Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Discusses heliotropism and sensitivity of root tips. Bewildered by their differences concerning circumnutation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 25 Oct 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 296
Summary:
Has no corrections. Pleased at sale of book [Earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 29
Summary:
Urges CD to find God.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
