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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 100
Summary:
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913 , pp. 281–2
Summary:
Is mapping coral distribution on the Tortugas reef. His observations on the Florida peninsula suggest that it was built up from the debris of animal remains and was not elevated.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 112
Summary:
Looks forward to reading CD’s Earthworms.
Agrees that habits of sand-wasp are determined by natural selection.
Experiment of exposing plants to flashing light gives uncertain result.
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 61
Summary:
Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116
Summary:
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
Contributor:
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From:
Irving Prescott Bishop
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 188
Summary:
Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,
and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102)
Summary:
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
Contributor:
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From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 62
Summary:
Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.
Contributor:
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From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Summary:
CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]
Contributor:
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