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DCP-LETT-13751

From:
Henry Groves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 165: 236
Summary:

Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4062

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
1 April 1882
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/125
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13752

From:
Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 115
Summary:

Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13756

From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 159: 57
Summary:

Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8975)
Summary:

Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.

CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Groves
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46917: 66)
Summary:

Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.

CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13757F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Enrique Eunom (Federico) Philippi
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
Yudilevich Levy and Castro Le-Fort eds. 1996 , p. 33
Summary:

Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13753

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.618)
Summary:

Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thomson Van Dyck
Date:
3 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 15 (EH 88206067)
Summary:

Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13758

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
4 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 367
Summary:

Sends signature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1746

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
4 April 1882
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP799

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Percival Wright
Date:
4 April 1882
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395810
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13759

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 264
Summary:

Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0053

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 April [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0597

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 April [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13761

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Hadley
Date:
6 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 368
Summary:

Sends his birth date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Edward Armytage Axon
Date:
7 Apr [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 26
Summary:

Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13763

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
7 Apr 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 16)
Summary:

Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.

Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13764

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 265
Summary:

Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund

and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-04-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
9 April 1882
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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