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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fol. 11)
Summary:

Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[30 Mar 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 42
Summary:

CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.

He is decidedly better again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 105
Summary:

Requests snake poison for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 424–5
Summary:

Apologises for not having answered CD’s letters of 19 December [13564] and 4 January [13599] sooner.

Gives the results of his crossing experiments with Pontederia (Eichhornia) crassipes and P. azurea. Has also begun experiments on Heteranthera reniformis.

Thanks CD for sending three parts of the first volume of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera plantarum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Groves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 165: 236
Summary:

Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 115
Summary:

Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618)
Summary:

Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Groves
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46917: 66)
Summary:

Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.

CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8975)
Summary:

Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.

CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 159: 57
Summary:

Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thomson Van Dyck
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067)
Summary:

Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Enrique Eunom (Federico) Philippi
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
Yudilevich Levy and Castro Le-Fort eds. 1996 , p. 33
Summary:

Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
4 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 367
Summary:

Sends signature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 264
Summary:

Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
6 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 368
Summary:

Sends his birth date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Edward Armytage Axon
Date:
7 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 26
Summary:

Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
7 Apr 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 16)
Summary:

Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.

Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 265
Summary:

Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund

and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Nind Hopkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 267
Summary:

Sends fact about earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project