From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[Dec 1881?]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 10)
Summary:
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 169
Summary:
Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117
Summary:
Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 317
Summary:
BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 88
Summary:
Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 119
Summary:
Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 116
Summary:
Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 101
Summary:
Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hall
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 82
Summary:
Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Brander Dunbar-Brander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 280
Summary:
Comments on CD’s Earthworms.
Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 197–198)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for his corrections of "stupid errata" [in Earthworms]. Explains, in answer to JVC’s query, that he has used the word "humus" as the equivalent of vegetable mould.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603)
Summary:
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Foster Barham Zincke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 184: 14
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Douglas James Wintle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9] Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 132
Summary:
Earthworms leave their burrows on hearing rifle volleys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 9
Summary:
CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
