From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Lippert
Date:
[May 1881 or later]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23)
Summary:
Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218)
Summary:
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 230: 83
Summary:
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Gilbert Whiteman
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 354
Summary:
Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich August Tscherning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 195
Summary:
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 May [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 224)
Summary:
Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 May [1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/32)
Summary:
Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 258
Summary:
Thanks for letter expressing CD’s position with regard to experiments on living animals and for getting the letter printed in the Times [18 Apr 1881, Collected papers 2: 226–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
8 May 1881
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:
Aware that AH thinks CD has done nothing to advance the good cause of the descent theory.
Obliged for gift of AH’s [Tertiary species of Planorbis at Steinheim (1880)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Bok
Date:
10 May 1881
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2011)
Summary:
Sends autograph. Hopes collecting will lead Bok to science, as it did him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel McAlpine
Date:
10 May 1881
Source of text:
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 6273 Box 289(c) 5)
Summary:
Thanks for DM’s [Zoological atlas (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
10 May [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 226)
Summary:
Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 72
Summary:
Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
13 [May] 1881
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for work sent by GdeS and A. F. Marion [L’évolution du règne végétal 1 (1881)]. CD greatly pleased at boldness with which GdeS expresses his belief in evolution. Some of GdeS’s countrymen have been "a little timid" on this head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
13 May 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 70
Summary:
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project