From:
Henry Marriage Wallis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 15
Summary:
Reports some observations on the growth of hair on his baby son’s ears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
15 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 128
Summary:
Obliged for potatoes. Has instructed that they be planted and labelled.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 109
Summary:
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1881 and sends cheque for balance due to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 314
Summary:
Reports the observations of Thomas Bridges on the Fuegian natives. Discusses especially the languages of the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Marriage Wallis
Date:
22 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 279
Summary:
Comments on HMW’s discovery concerning growth of hair on human ears. Asks permission to publish fact.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Marriage Wallis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 16
Summary:
Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.
Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Marriage Wallis
Date:
31 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 280
Summary:
Encourages HMW’s study of growth of hair on ears. Recommends he publish findings in Nature.
Comments on facts about goatsucker and dorkings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[9 July 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 71
Summary:
Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary (Marie) McElroy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 23
Summary:
Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 256
Summary:
Swedish anti-vivisectionists are claiming CD is opposed to animal experiments; Holmgren wishes CD to state his position.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 38
Summary:
Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 574
Summary:
Murray’s will be happy to publish [Earthworms] on usual terms of two-thirds profits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 117
Summary:
Sends his last report on Russian wheat varieties [Gard. Chron. n.s. 15 (1881): 430–2].
Considers which part of grass embryo is the cotyledon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst L. Zeuschner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 184: 8
Summary:
Sends pamphlet showing that magnetism is the fundamental element by which all is created and maintained.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 372
Summary:
Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."
Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 43
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 54
Summary:
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Apr 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 180: 14
Summary:
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Dixon Spain
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 37
Summary:
Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 60; DAR 168: 62/1 and 62/2
Summary:
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project