From:
Frederick Capes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 44
Summary:
Reports extract of spurge [Euphorbia] killing earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96)
Summary:
Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 24
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Glad CD liked the Dischidia drawing. GK wishes he could see it in the wild to study its habits and those of the insects that visit it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 110
Summary:
Asks for a testimonial for the Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Summary:
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:
[after 21 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 110v
Summary:
Must refuse WCM’s request to revise E. Ray Lankester's testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
[after 21 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113b
Summary:
CD asks him to say that the beautiful specimens of Dischidia arrived safely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Birkett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 310
Summary:
Has read Earthworms; would like to know if his friend’s belief is true that worms, if not destroyed, eat the tender rootlets of grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 100
Summary:
Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
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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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.]
Contributor:
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