From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 163: 24
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 265
Summary:
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules Henri (Jules) Barrois
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 13
Summary:
The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Victor Naudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 172: 11
Summary:
J. Decaisne has died.
Sends a few rare seeds of Trifolium resupinatum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 266
Summary:
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Frederick Crawte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 99–100
Summary:
Sends an account of a combat between a frog and a worm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 109)
Summary:
Sends a dividend cheque.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 110)
Summary:
News about his dividends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 152
Summary:
Twelve "Revised Directions" for CD’s treatment, mainly diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Pye-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 174: 84
Summary:
CD invited to [Science Defence Association] meeting at Royal College of Physicians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 103
Summary:
Sends his measurement of an unusually large worm-casting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Agnes Taylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 52
Summary:
Seeking contributions to assist the widow of C. T. Beke.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 111)
Summary:
News of Great Western Railway dividend; discussion of Leonard Darwin’s ‘exciting news’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 105: A109
Summary:
Thanks CD for an article [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 159: 49
Summary:
CD and other friends who got up fund for GA in 1879 have now bought him a microscope; thanks CD, especially as the idea came from him; plans to take up original observations with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 253
Summary:
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 292
Summary:
Concern over CD’s health. Advises him to get one of the cleverer young London doctors to communicate with Andrew Clark. Only way out of difficulties with Clark.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Charles Wallich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 6)
Summary:
In a forthcoming lecture GCW will dispute Haeckel on Protista and his statement that spontaneous generation is necessary to complete evolution as a doctrine. Wishes to confirm his understanding that CD has nowhere expressed himself on the "origin of life", and has considered only the manner of succession.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Agnes Taylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 53
Summary:
Formal letter of thanks for contribution to Mrs C. T. Beke.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Trelease
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 178: 181
Summary:
Believes heterostyly could be produced by artificial selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project