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DCP-LETT-13611

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Quantity of nitrogen in castings surprises CD.

Comments on papers: [J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert, "Results of experiments on mixed herbage, pt 1", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 289–416; Gilbert, Lawes and M. T. Masters, "pt 2: The botanical results", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1882): 1181–413].

Has never made sections to see how deep worms burrow – five or six feet is probable. Wishes the problem had arisen when he made his observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13613

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 104: 175
Summary:

B. D. Jackson’s plan for new Steudel Nomenclator approved. JDH asks for CD’s cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
Summary:

Thanks for Science and culture [1881].

Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13615

From:
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 29
Summary:

Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot

and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC693

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 January 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 68, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-13614

From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 256
Summary:

Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen

and a recent visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0043

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[13 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13617

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 105
Summary:

Potatoes [from Torbitt experiment] sent him for eating were very poor. Those for seed produced abundantly, but have not resisted disease better than other kinds that Payne [his gardener] has grown.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2630

From:
Helen Taylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 January 1882
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 36-37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13618

From:
William Trelease
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 178: 180
Summary:

Sends article on dimorphism in Oxalis violacea [Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 13–19].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13619

From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 171
Summary:

Encloses an extract (from the Bayswater Chronicle [missing]), which is part of an ongoing disagreement in which JFS is involved.

Has read some references to CD’s hypothesis on music and offers a MS by himself which deals with the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13619F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106)
Summary:

Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-01-17b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
17 January 1882
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13620

From:
Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale; Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 180
Summary:

The Secretary to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works thanks CD for providing the funds for a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator [Index Kewensis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13621

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 173: 10
Summary:

Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Summary:

Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13624

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 100
Summary:

Trying to get some Darwinians into the Institut de France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0044

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[19 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13625

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 104: 176–7
Summary:

Politics at Kew led to a letter of thanks to CD from the First Commissioner for his gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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