From:
Melchior Neumayr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 172: 18
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Sends preferred address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 323
Summary:
Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 95: 545
Summary:
CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dixon Kendall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 5
Summary:
Suggests that the tendency of the left arm to move with the right leg (and vice versa) during walking is a rudiment of quadrupedal locomotion and thus bears on the descent of man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.612)
Summary:
Prefers to make the present of microscope at once [to Grant Allen].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 113
Summary:
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Whittaker Ellis, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Observer , 22 January 1882, p. 5
Summary:
Asking the lord mayor of London to call a public meeting concerning the persecution of the Jews in Russia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 51–52)
Summary:
Thanks JM for copy of Quarterly Review, with article on his worm book [Henry Wace, "Darwin on earthworms", Q. Rev. 153 (1882): 179–202].
Writer will change his mind on evolution. CD cannot think of any young worker in biology who is not convinced of the truth of evolution, though many believe that natural selection has not done much.
Contributor:
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From:
George Croom Robertson
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 176: 187
Summary:
Returns CD’s letter concerning testimonial fund for Grant Allen.
Contributor:
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From:
James Sinclair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 174
Summary:
JS is proposing to write a detailed history of the polled Aberdeen breed of cattle [James Macdonald and James Sinclair, History of polled Aberdeen or Angus cattle (1882)] and would be grateful for any instances of hornless breeds known to CD; in particular asks his opinion on the cause of the peculiarity.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Yates Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 178: 110
Summary:
Sends a letter [missing] from a Mr Moorhouse on lapwing behaviour that makes earthworms rise to surface.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 284
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 102
Summary:
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Date:
22 Jan 1882
Source of text:
B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982)
Summary:
Accepts election as a corresponding member of the American Social Science Association [see 13615].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 January 1882
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 126
Summary:
Is coming to town for a meeting of the Land Nationalisation Society. Could he have a bed on Tuesday night?.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[23 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 285
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 103
Summary:
Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 104
Summary:
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Holub
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Národní Muzeum, Prague
Summary:
Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.613)
Summary:
Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.
Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].
Contributor:
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