From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:
Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 518
Summary:
Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:
Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 85
Summary:
WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Rick Northwood (private collection)
Summary:
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:
Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 519
Summary:
Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:
Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 260
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Earthworms.
Describes a worm from Ceylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shaw Billings
Date:
8 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:
Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 520
Summary:
Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63, 1988)
Summary:
Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 31
Summary:
On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Walbank Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 7
Summary:
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 105: A108
Summary:
Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 188
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project