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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.
CD will put together his notes on the action of carbonate of ammonia on roots in a few days. Asks SHV to send any information he may have, but not to answer if he has none. [See 13666.]
Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.
Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.
Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?
Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.
Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?
Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.
Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.
Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.
Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.
Asks EF to sign enclosed certificate if he thinks Raphael Meldola deserves being elected F.R.S. [See 13674.] Requests that his note with certificate be passed on to Norman Lockyer.
Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.
Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.
Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.
Orders International scientific directory.
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.