From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 12
Summary:
Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
28 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 238
Summary:
Thanks JP for his kindness, but unfortunately the [unspecified] case is of no use to him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1879
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Miscellaneous MSS)
Summary:
Returns an "old book" [? Baeta, Comparative view of the theories and practice of Drs Cullen, Brown and Darwin (1800); see Erasmus Darwin, p. 107]. Glad to see that Dr Erasmus Darwin’s views on fever were attended to.
Fears his life of Dr Darwin will be a poor affair. "Never again will I be tempted out of my proper work."
Contributor:
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 194
Summary:
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 11
Summary:
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.
Contributor:
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018)
Summary:
Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31)
Summary:
Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.
Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.
Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."
Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.
Contributor:
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 12
Summary:
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 409 n.
Summary:
Perhaps you would like to see a very small “tumour” on a lateral branch of the Silver Fur, caused by an Œstrum, as stated (with references) in my Power of Movement in Plants. These tumours are sometimes almost as big as a child’s head. At what age they emit the upright shoot, I do not know.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June 1881
Source of text:
Francisco Ayala (private collection)
Summary:
Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Contributor:
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