From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
G. Clinch
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 260
Summary:
Discusses function of bud-scales.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 February [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 469
Summary:
Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 348–9
Summary:
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Contributor:
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From:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 253
Summary:
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
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".
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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.
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From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 61
Summary:
Birthday congratulations.
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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:
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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.
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From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 2
Summary:
Asks for autographs.
Contributor:
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From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 February 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Ada Harriet Miser; Ada Harriet Kepley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 7
Summary:
An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.
Contributor:
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From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 175
Summary:
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 296
Summary:
Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.
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From:
John Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 209
Summary:
Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].
Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.
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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].
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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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Summary:
Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.
Contributor:
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