From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 518
Summary:
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 85
Summary:
WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 519
Summary:
Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 260
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 520
Summary:
Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Walbank Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 7
Summary:
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A108
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 188
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 14
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 261
Summary:
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 26
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Importance of wind in soil formation and transport.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 33
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Terraces on the Cheviot Hills.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Andreas Victor (Victor) Hensen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 146
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms. Not convinced that worms derive nutrition from eating soil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 88
Summary:
Thanks and praises CD for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 44
Summary:
Thanks CD for answering his query about evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Ray Lankester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
ML 2: 215
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms. Very proud to see his drawing in the book.
Does CD know of experiments with sea water on earthworms?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project