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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 December 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
4 December 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 279
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 280
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 281
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[18 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 282
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida; Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 10 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 633
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Félix Hément
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 139
Summary:

Sends notes of reports by E. A. Axon, George Ticknor, and Joseph Alley to Académie des Sciences on deaf mutes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 169
Summary:

Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:

"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 317
Summary:

BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117
Summary:

Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:

Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 119
Summary:

Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 88
Summary:

Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 101
Summary:

Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 116
Summary:

Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hall
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 82
Summary:

Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Brander Dunbar-Brander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 280
Summary:

Comments on CD’s Earthworms.

Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 263
Summary:

He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Foster Barham Zincke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 184: 14
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project