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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.
Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
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.].
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.
Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.
Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].
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].
Sends signature.
Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.
Sends his birth date.
Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.
Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.
Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.
Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund
and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.
Sends fact about earthworms.
Requests seeds of Solanum rostratum.
Fritz Müller believes that in plants with anthers of different colours, bees collect from one set alone.
Suggests JET send copy of paper ["Flowers of Solanum rostratum and Cassia chamaecrista", Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 281–7] to Müller.
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Remembers signing cards but they must have been lost in the post. Sends signature.
Sends more Trifolium resupinatum.
In France as in England there is indignation at the insults Decaisne suffered in the last years of his life.
Charles Martins has lost his Professorship at Montpellier.
Corrects WW’s misunderstanding of passage about habit of dogs in burying food [see Expression: 44].