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DCP-LETT-13686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707)
Summary:

Thanks for AD’s letter.

Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.

F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.

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DCP-LETT-13687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 353–353/1
Summary:

Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.

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DCP-LETT-13688

From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 2
Summary:

Asks for autographs.

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DCP-LETT-13688F

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Collier
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6513)
Summary:

Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.

Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].

JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.

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DCP-LETT-13689F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 8)
Summary:

Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).

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DCP-LETT-13690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giuseppe Merighi
Date:
16 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara (MS II:423)
Summary:

CD’s observations on the geology of S. Africa, which he considers of no value, were published in Volcanic islands.

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DCP-LETT-13691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks HWB to sign and return F.R.S. certificate for Raphael Meldola; if he objects to signing, CD will not mention the fact. [Meldola elected F.R.S., June 1886.]

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DCP-LETT-13691A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Summary:

CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13692

From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:

Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.

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DCP-LETT-13693

From:
Ada Harriet Miser; Ada Harriet Kepley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 7
Summary:

An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.

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DCP-LETT-13694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brown
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6289/23)
Summary:

Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13695

From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 175
Summary:

F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
21 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36222)
Summary:

His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Summary:

Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.

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DCP-LETT-13697F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:

Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 5
Summary:

Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13700

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 296
Summary:

Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.

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DCP-LETT-13701

From:
John Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 209
Summary:

Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].

Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.

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