From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 146
Summary:
AR plans, when he dies, to leave sea-side house at Worthing to Huxley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 March 1881
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 63, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 147
Summary:
Pleased that Huxley is likely to accept gift of AR’s house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 359)
Summary:
CD tells how it came about that Anthony Rich bequeathed his house and land to THH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 209)
Summary:
Astonished by Rich’s act. Has written to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6, 13 or 20] Mar 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 107
Summary:
Intends experiment to see if cats released in country can find their way back.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
6 March 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he is sending Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] the list of herbarium visitors for the RBG Kew annual report, he was not sure whether to include [George] Bentham's name. He notes that the list shows a 'wonderful amount of botanical query & activity'. JDH is now preparing the list of additions to the herbarium, including the extensive list of [Georg Wilhelm Heinrich] Schimper & General William Munro's donated herbaria. JDH discusses the benefits of WTTD going to Court, both for him personally & for the office of Assistant Director of RBG Kew. JDH mentions that he likes the hotel Romain, where he is staying in Paris. He & his party plan to dine at Lavalier's & Capones[?] in Paris before travelling south.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A106–7
Summary:
Reports observations of worms for CD’s use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Sends some books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.584)
Summary:
Comments on the meaning of his definition of the term, "animal intelligence". Encloses further discussion from his forthcoming book [Earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 216
Summary:
Responds to MS of Earthworms. An objective but arbitrary test of intelligence in animals is the ability to learn from experience. Earthworms fall on the border of intelligence. They could justly be called intelligent if they could learn by experience to manipulate some unknown, exotic leaf. CD should make clear that intelligence does not imply self-consciousness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/31)
Summary:
Discusses dead earthworms on surface of ground after rainfall.
Describes experiments involving sensitivity of earthworms to light and how it reflects on their intelligence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wynne Jeudwine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1881-2
Source of text:
DAR 168: 63
Summary:
Requests a subscription for Shrewsbury School.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frank Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3 (Letters): 284
Summary:
Sends a number of facts for CD’s attention, including cases of water-beetles and newts in his aquarium having a foot caught by small bivalves. This might explain migration of bivalves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 148
Summary:
Huxley has written to accept gift of Rich’s house.
Approves of Lord Derby’s politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 March 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.71, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH is sending Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] the prepared list of donations to the RBG Kew herbarium, for the annual Kew Report, which will need revising by WTTD & [Daniel] Oliver. They may also wish to edit Hooker's eulogy to [General William] Munro. JDH cannot work up the list of Kew's publications without references so the Report will be delayed beyond the end of Mar this year. JDH & [Asa] Gray have visited [Joseph] Decaisne who is convinced that a student of his can define the characters of the natural orders based on hairs[?], & Decaisne is classifying species of Clematis according to the bristles on the stem & testa, which Baillon[?] will undoubtedly debunk. They visited the Jardin des plantes where JDH observed about 18 immature species of Madagascar palms. Also met: [Marie Maxim] Cornu, [Philippe Édouard Léon] van Tieghem, [Pierre Étienne Simon] Duchartre & [Gaspard Adolphe] Chatin. They have dined at Lavalier's & been to St Denis. Next they go to Chambery, Turin, Genoa, Pise [Pisa], Rome & Naples.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.585)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s view of animal consciousness. Mentions experiment on learning among worms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Turner and Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
10 March 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.72, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH reports that he has arrived in Rome. En route the party stopped in Paris & dined with Lavalie[?] & Copen[?], the latter may leave his herbarium to RBG Kew. They then travelled through Chambery & Turin, where they saw the Champollion Collection of Egyptian Antiquities but JDH forgot to call on Giovanni Arcangeli who is a professor there. JDH admired the view of the Alps towards Monte Viso from an 'Alpine club' house at Turin. After Turin they went to Genoa & tried unsuccessfully to call on the Marquis Giacomo Doria. They also saw the Doria Natural History Museum with a splendid collection of animals from the Malay Islands & called on Federico Delpino. JDH revisited the palaces with the Van Dyke paintings he saw in 1874. He calls the Genoa botanic garden 'small & miserable'. From Genoa they took the train to Pisa where they met up with Betsy White as was. JDH describes the Duomo they visited in Pisa. He also describes the scenery en route from Pisa to Rome. They will next go to Castellammare & stay at the Hotel Quisisana in Naples before returning to Rome. They have briefly seen Miss May Symonds & her brother. JDH notes how sparsely populated, though cultivated, the plains of Italy are. He has seen a few wild flowers: anemones & violets. Curiously the bark of almost all the trees south of the Alps is very white: Planes, Poplars, Mulberries & Elms.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 173, DAR 52: E6
Summary:
Sends CD some samples of recent produce. Is "pretty well disgusted by the apathy and stupidity" he has encountered whilst trying to arouse interest and support for his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Mar 1881
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Will proof-read his preface to Weismann’s Studien.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project