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:
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:
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:
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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:
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:
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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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 170–1
Summary:
On plants CD requested.
Frank should work on Dischidia.
Work on palms.
Overloaded with reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Lovett Henn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 142
Summary:
Note on habits of earthworms.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 53
Summary:
Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 419–20
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter of 10 September [13326]
and for copy of Nature.
Reports on Lagerstroemia experiments.
Has been making observations on what happens to plants following heavy rain. Sends CD three specimens to show how dirt attaches to the undersides of leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 15
Summary:
Marine annelids are ingenious builders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Parfitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 15
Summary:
Corrects Werner Hoffmeister, cited in Earthworms, p. 63: earthworms do not block their holes to keep out Scolopendras but to prevent evaporation.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 69
Summary:
Commiserates on news of Wiesner and experiment on transmission of heliotropism. Asks whether he should review book for Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 October 1881
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B156-157
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 314
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 320]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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