From:
Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 230: 83
Summary:
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich August Tscherning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 195
Summary:
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 258
Summary:
Thanks for letter expressing CD’s position with regard to experiments on living animals and for getting the letter printed in the Times [18 Apr 1881, Collected papers 2: 226–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 70
Summary:
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 113
Summary:
Sends his review of Movement in plants from Die Gartenlaube.
Comments on the future prospects of Kosmos.
Comments on review of Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory by Romanes in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7] and Romanes’ reply to Butler [pp. 335–6].
Asks whether he might have a chapter of Earthworms to print in Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11
Summary:
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1881
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913 , pp. 284–6
Summary:
Discusses the structure and formation of the Florida peninsula. Part played by marine animals in building banks on which coral can thrive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 72
Summary:
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 52: E17
Summary:
Receipt, in CD’s hand, signed by JT, acknowledging subscriptions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 198: 34
Summary:
Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 66
Summary:
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 93)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 360
Summary:
Wishes to correct impression of his attitude towards CD’s contribution: CD has successfully explained how differences arise.
Pleased CD will read his book [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Andreas Victor (Victor) Hensen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 145
Summary:
Mentions article by P. E. Müller on worms: "Structur over skovjord [forest soil]" [Tidsk. Skovbrug 3 (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 118
Summary:
Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 259
Summary:
Thanks CD for photograph. They are battling for same cause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Goodwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 99: 200
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph.
WHG grew up within 200 yards of "The Mount" [Darwin residence] in Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Ballantyne Hannay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 98
Summary:
In complex molecules such as proteins, liquid and gaseous states merge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project