From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1882?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 116
Summary:
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Contributor:
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1882–3]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 261
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1882–3]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 262
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
In answer to CD’s query, FM thinks the seeds he sent were those of the sensitive Mimosa.
Reports his observations of movement of leaves of Bauhinia grandiflora and B. brasiliensis. They do not "sleep" in hot weather.
Sends some seeds of Pontederia he had fertilised.
Contributor:
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From:
João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 284
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter for Villa Franca. Would be happy if CD published the Baron’s observations in an English scientific journal.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 220
Summary:
Reports the inconclusive results of some experiments he has been doing for CD [related to plant colouring material?].
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[4 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 105)
Summary:
Has sold London & South Western Railway stock and has purchased Great Western stock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
6 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.611), DAR 207: 4
Summary:
Accepts GJR’s offer to prepare sugar-cane paper for publication [Villa Franca and Glass, "New varieties of sugar-cane", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1880–2): 30–1]. Suggests introduction and outline.
Agrees with GJR on microscope for Grant Allen.
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From:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 104: 244–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for financial assistance for Mr Fitch and his wife.
Contributor:
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From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 170
Summary:
Has read Earthworms; discusses parts and encloses a list of errata. Writes of worm-castings, describing his observations; speculates on the variation in their distribution under different conditions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 60
Summary:
Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.
Contributor:
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 168: 89
Summary:
Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112)
Summary:
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 165: 45
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms.
Discusses the problem of accounting for difference between nitrogen in permanent grassland and ordinary arable soil. Finds castings of earthworms rich in nitrogen. Asks CD if his observations enable him to explain the source. If from below top-soil, it would be a considerable manuring.
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From:
Gottlieb Haberlandt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 15
Summary:
Sends his paper on the comparative anatomy of the assimilatory tissue systems of plants [Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 13 (1882): 74–188]. This work has made clear to him how CD’s principles produce rich results when applied to plant anatomy.
Also sends a paper on the difficult problem of the gulf between cryptogamic and phanerogamic plants in the evolutionary development, in order to present another proof of the continuity of the phylogenetic development of the plant kingdom.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
Date:
9 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 29
Summary:
Thinks that "women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually". Believes that men and women may have been aboriginally equal in this respect but that to regain equality women would have to "become as regular ""bread-winners"" as are men". Suspects the education of children and "the happiness of our homes" would greatly suffer in that case.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
10 January 1882
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 283
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 148: 130
Summary:
CD’s gardener reports that potatoes were not attacked by disease, but yield was not good. Noble of JT to plan the return of subscriptions if trade continues to improve.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
11 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 270
Summary:
Thanks FJC for presentation copy [of Die Pflanze (1882)].
Contributor:
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