From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 345
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Brudenell Carter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 51
Summary:
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
Contributor:
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From:
John Henry Chamberlain
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 130
Summary:
Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 86
Summary:
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 97
Summary:
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B156–7
Summary:
Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
18 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:
Can think of no suggestion to send to Mrs Forsyth. "The best plan is to read, think and speculate and then some suggestion or doubt will occur which can be determined or verified out of observation."
Contributor:
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From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 7
Summary:
CD will be figured tomorrow in Punch. The artist, Linley Sambourne, expresses his deep respect.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Reginald Saint Pattrick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 30
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 267
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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].
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