From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 351
Summary:
Writes to ask how much he should subscribe to fund for David Ferrier.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Parker Snow
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Summary:
Hopes WPS may succeed with a new edition of his book [see 13495]. WPS saw so much more of the natives of Tierra del Fuego than did CD and his opinion of them is probably right.
Discourages him from visiting.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Howard Vines
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 78
Summary:
Rows of cells with granular matter following treatment with carbonate of ammonia also found in white and young rootlets of common zonal Pelargonium. Differs slightly from Euphorbia in that 2, 3, 4, or 5 rows often adjoin. CD wrong in supposing that these rows of cells were connected with lacticiferous ducts ("milk-tubes"). Root hairs arise exclusively from rows of cells without brownish granular matter. It appears that certain rows of cells with hairs are absorbent and store matter of some kind. This is a new view of the structure and function of rootlets. Francis Darwin will soon set up the salt solution to make the experiment SHV recommends.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Capes
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 204
Summary:
Discusses milk ducts in Euphorbia [spurge].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970)
Summary:
Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks him for magnificent work on Pycnogonida [The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, vol. 3, part 10 (1881)].
Is delighted that he is undertaking the Cirripedia [1883–4].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28))
Summary:
At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.
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From:
Gustav Friedrich Edmund (Gustav) Wegner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 41
Summary:
Reports observing two wheat flowers that bent towards each other and pressed together in a "quick throbbing motion".
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From:
Sydney Howard Vines
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 62: 1
Summary:
Will observe the granular cells in roots, to investigate CD’s observation that root-hairs spring from cells that are not granular. Hopes they may be soluble in [carbonate of ammonia] solution.
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 114
Summary:
Concerning French translation of Earthworms
and Movement in plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 112
Summary:
Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
26 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 195–196)
Summary:
Sends some additions and corrections he has made in the 5th thousand, [of Earthworms] now being printed.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sydney Howard Vines
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 79
Summary:
Describes experiment in which Euphorbia and Drosophyllum roots were exposed to ammonium carbonate solution. Asks SHV’s opinion.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 7327 f. 112)
Summary:
Has no objection to Édouard Heckel’s preface to the French translation of Movement in Plants.
Sends some additions for the French translation of Earthworms.
Wouls like a copy of the French translation of Movement in Plants sent to Gaston de Saporta, Charles Frédéric Martins and Charles Victor Naudin.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 347
Summary:
Writes regarding subscription to set up the Science Defence and Advancement Fund to protect investigators from anti-vivisectionists and to promote knowledge of the purpose and importance of vivisection.
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From:
Edmund Thornton Crabbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 228
Summary:
Offers for sale a MS of lost Erasmus Darwin poem on materialism [Francis Darwin note: "Swindle"].
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 262
Summary:
Thanks CD for support in his election as Linacre Professor at Oxford.
J. Y. Buchanan, of the Challenger, says deep-sea red mud is fine because, like CD’s vegetable mould, it has been digested by worms and echinoderms.
Visited by John MacNeile Price, the son of CD’s friend from Chile, Mr Price; the son is now Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Raleigh Browne
Date:
23 Nov 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (20 January 2010)
Summary:
Regrets that he cannot write the requested journal article on comparative anatomy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Franklin Gladwin
Date:
28 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin)
Summary:
Hopes EFG pursues more worthy object than collecting autographs.
Contributor:
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From:
Asher & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.
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