From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 153
Summary:
Has observed earthworms drawing pine needles into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108)
Summary:
Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 143
Summary:
Declines CD’s generous offer of assistance with publishing costs of Weismann’s Studies, but would welcome his help in getting elected to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Surman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123
Summary:
FWS is applying for a position and wants a character reference.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Allen Thorndike (Allen) (Thorndike) Rice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 134
Summary:
The editor of North American Review asks CD to write an article in support of systematic observations of mental development in infants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 246, 248
Summary:
Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Hewett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 195
Summary:
Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 468
Summary:
Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.
Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 144
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sydney Howard Vines
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 180: 7
Summary:
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Horsfall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 145: 359
Summary:
Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.
Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 222
Summary:
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 212
Summary:
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 469
Summary:
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 348–9
Summary:
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 253
Summary:
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 61
Summary:
Birthday congratulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 2
Summary:
Asks for autographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
