From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Trübner & Co.
Date:
9 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.616)
Summary:
Orders International scientific directory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
G. Clinch
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 260
Summary:
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hanson Greville (Greville) Williams
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 20)
Summary:
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925)
Summary:
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707)
Summary:
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Arthur Reade
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 292
Summary:
Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970)
Summary:
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 353–353/1
Summary:
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Collier
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6513)
Summary:
Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.
Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].
JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 8)
Summary:
Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giuseppe Merighi
Date:
16 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara (MS II:423)
Summary:
CD’s observations on the geology of S. Africa, which he considers of no value, were published in Volcanic islands.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks HWB to sign and return F.R.S. certificate for Raphael Meldola; if he objects to signing, CD will not mention the fact. [Meldola elected F.R.S., June 1886.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brown
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6289/23)
Summary:
Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
21 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36222)
Summary:
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:
Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 5
Summary:
Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.
Contributor:
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