From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116
Summary:
Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 75
Summary:
Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 44
Summary:
Invites CD to visit Rothamsted. The experimental plots are at their best "as illustrating the vast influence of external conditions on the character and results of the struggle between the numerous components of an established mixed herbage".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leopold Sirk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 36
Summary:
Austrian correspondent on proverbs, philosophy, and politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 5
Summary:
Mentions Mastodon remains that he has seen.
Praises CD and his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 88
Summary:
Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.
Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 150–1
Summary:
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114b, 114c
Summary:
Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 149
Summary:
The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Mosley Lloyd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 170: 5
Summary:
Although CD says in Expression that foxes are not known to lick hands of their masters, RML can report a case of such an occurrence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Payne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 98
Summary:
Sends seeds of Anemone pulsatilla that bury themselves like feather grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 73
Summary:
Glad CD approves of diaheliotropic paper. Reports on experiments with Carex and Yucca. Discusses translation of ‘Växtbook’ from Swedish. Heard some excellent music the previous night.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 74
Summary:
Passes on an account from Cohen of preparations by Hahn of fossil coral-like structures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 152–3
Summary:
At 63 JDH still works hard to support his family. Many friends have died. Memories of times past spent with CD lift his pessimism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 76
Summary:
Discusses observations on circumnutation by FD, Kraus, Wortmann.
Contributor:
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 16
Summary:
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 78
Summary:
Plans visit to Ceylon.
Describes rejection of his application for funds by Berlin Academy. Asks about possibility of obtaining support in England. Is writing to Lubbock and Huxley about it.
Hopes that new microscope from Zeiss is satisfactory. Ernst Abbe selected lenses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
Haslemere Educational Museum (LD-8-892-P443–4)
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s sympathy for James Croll; George Howard Darwin’s signature would have been welcome.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 115
Summary:
Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Ballantyne Hannay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 99
Summary:
Experiments on change of state in albumen under high temperature and pressure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project