From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Sends some books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 216
Summary:
Responds to MS of Earthworms. An objective but arbitrary test of intelligence in animals is the ability to learn from experience. Earthworms fall on the border of intelligence. They could justly be called intelligent if they could learn by experience to manipulate some unknown, exotic leaf. CD should make clear that intelligence does not imply self-consciousness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wynne Jeudwine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1881-2
Source of text:
DAR 168: 63
Summary:
Requests a subscription for Shrewsbury School.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frank Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3 (Letters): 284
Summary:
Sends a number of facts for CD’s attention, including cases of water-beetles and newts in his aquarium having a foot caught by small bivalves. This might explain migration of bivalves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 148
Summary:
Huxley has written to accept gift of Rich’s house.
Approves of Lord Derby’s politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 173, DAR 52: E6
Summary:
Sends CD some samples of recent produce. Is "pretty well disgusted by the apathy and stupidity" he has encountered whilst trying to arouse interest and support for his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101)
Summary:
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 41
Summary:
Sends boxes of Lake Geneva pebbles that CD requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Marriage Wallis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 15
Summary:
Reports some observations on the growth of hair on his baby son’s ears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 109
Summary:
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works to 1 Feb 1881 and sends cheque for balance due to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 314
Summary:
Reports the observations of Thomas Bridges on the Fuegian natives. Discusses especially the languages of the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eben Jenks Loomis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Loomis-Wilder Family Papers (MS 496A) Series 2, Box 6, folder 19)
Summary:
Describes light-stimulated movement in fronds of the fern Asplenium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896 , pp. 107–8
Summary:
Suggests transplanting plant ovaries to test Pangenesis.
None of the cats released in experiment found its way back.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Marriage Wallis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 16
Summary:
Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.
Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Cambridge University Library316
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College5
- Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon, National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon2
- Smithsonian Libraries2
- Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere1
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