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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 264
Summary:
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 176
Summary:
F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 13
Summary:
Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Venn Dicey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 177
Summary:
Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thomson Van Dyck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 180: 3
Summary:
Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114)
Summary:
Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project