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DCP-LETT-13645F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 107)
Summary:

Requests CD to sent a cheque for the succession duty on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.569)
Summary:

Agrees about Grant Allen affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13646

From:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 9
Summary:

Reports observations on curious cats that appear to be cat–rabbit hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001250

From:
John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
27 January 1882
Source of text:
MM/17/118, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 12a
Summary:

Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13649

From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:

Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13650

From:
Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 31
Summary:

Argues that women are as regular "bread-winners" as men, though generally unrecognised as such, and that they possess the same qualities as men but lack the educational opportunities. Before women can be judged intellectually inferior to men they must share the same environment and opportunities. With "enlightened intellect, united with her wholesome moral nature" woman could help with the "propagation of the best and the survival of the fittest in the human species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:

Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13648F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sinclair
Date:
[28 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
National Livestock Journal , August 1882, p. 363
Summary:

His thoughts on the lack of horns in domesticated cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13651

From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:

Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13652

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 142
Summary:

Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Date:
[before Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 87
Summary:

Is glad to hear that Hermann Müller approves of D’AWT’s translation of his work [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]; he hopes a publisher may be found for a work of such high value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13653

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 153
Summary:

Has observed earthworms drawing pine needles into their burrows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13591

From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 247
Summary:

Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13654F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 108)
Summary:

Suggested T. G. Bonney contact CD to confirm story was apocryphal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
2 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club, Meldola papers)
Summary:

Regrets he can add no more to his preface for Weismann’s Studies. Offers donation to aid with publishing expenses.

Thinks RM’s preface is excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13655

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 143
Summary:

Declines CD’s generous offer of assistance with publishing costs of Weismann’s Studies, but would welcome his help in getting elected to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13656

From:
Frederic William Surman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123
Summary:

FWS is applying for a position and wants a character reference.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gertrude Susan Astley; Gertrude Susan Nicholson
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123v
Summary:

Testifies to F. W. Surman’s good character and honesty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a
Summary:

Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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