From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
17 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606)
Summary:
Asks him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 173–4
Summary:
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 352
Summary:
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Valentine Riley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 158
Summary:
Concurs in CD’s criticism of Thomas Meehan [see 13360].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2)
Summary:
Can FG call on Monday evening?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolai Krohn
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:
"The number of worms in your garden is astonishing … it will be an interesting observation, how soon the land is again stocked with worms, & whether the grass grows better before this happens. – I neglected to observe whether worms distruct [disturb?] the roots of grasses. – You will probably be able to borrow … my book On the Formation of Vegetable Mould … in which … you will find a good deal about the natural history of worms."
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Warner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 128
Summary:
Sends CD a pamphlet on muscular conditions expressive of states of the brain
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Surman
Date:
19 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.607)
Summary:
Asks for personal information about FWS, former employee of E. A. Darwin. [FWS is applying for position at British Museum.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 57)
Summary:
Waxy secretion or "bloom" on leaves.
FM’s article on Crotalaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Seymour Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 173: 44
Summary:
Observations on rattlesnakes
and on tunnels built by Brazilian ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Pye-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 82
Summary:
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 34
Summary:
Thanks CD for his support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Víctor López-Seoane
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 108
Summary:
Asks CD for some references to aid his work. [Brief annotations for a reply by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
19 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
A. C. Seward ed. 1909 , p. 279
Summary:
Thanks EBW for his curious case of mimicry in Scyllaea, which parallels that observed by Albert Günther in Hippocampus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Pye-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 83
Summary:
Difficulty of using concrete instances of the benefit of vivisection in medical science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ford Robinson (William) (Ford) Stanley
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 490
Summary:
Comments on WFRS’s book [Properties and motions of fluids (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 258
Summary:
Explains how to go about getting an attendantship at the British Museum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nils Adolf Erik (Adolf) (Erik) Nordenskiöld, baron
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
Acknowledges presentation copy of publication about the Vega voyage [The voyage of the Vega (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 36)
Summary:
CD again has the pleasure of accepting another grand present, Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere (1881).
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Romanes, G. J.5
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Geikie, James3
- Günther, Albert3
- Carus, J. V.2
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, Horace2
- Hall, Arthur2
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Krohn, Nicolai2
- López-Seoane, Víctor2
- Marshall, W. P.2
- Paget, James2
- Powell, F. G. M.2
- Pye-Smith, P. H.2
- Stanley, William Ford2
- Sulivan, B. J.2
- Surman, F. W.2
- Vries, Hugo de2
- Weir, J. J.2
- Wilson, E. B.2
- Wintle, D. J.2
- Allen, Grant1
- Baily, Walter1
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Cheshire, W. W.1
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Dunbar-Brander, J. B.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Geddes, Patrick1
- Horner, A. C.1
- Hément, Félix1
- Kennard, C. A.1
- Kovalevsky, V. O.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Owen, G. S.1
- Parfitt, Edward1
- Piggot, Horatio1
- Price, John1
- Retzius, Gustaf1
- Riley, C. V.1
- Roberts, M. W.1
- Simon, Heinrich Henry1
- Simpson, J. F.1
- Smith, C. A.1
- Sorby, H. C.1
- Souza Corrêa, Arthur de1
- Tanner, M. W.1
- Tilt, A. P.1
- Turner, G. W.1
- Warner, Francis1
- Zincke, F. B.1