From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:
Worm observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:
Discusses investments.
The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
5 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Asks whether vegetable mould has an acid reaction. The contents of intestines of earthworms and castings are acid, which leads him to inquire about mould.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:
Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/62)
Summary:
Comments on CGS’s The natural conditions of existence [1881] and on views of Moritz Wagner on geographical distribution.
Discusses cause of variability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 Feb 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36214)
Summary:
Butler’s reply to EK is a renewed attack on CD. Urges EK not to answer it. His last letter contains everything necessary. Asks EK for dates of CD’s letter asking EK’s permission to publish a translation of his article [on Erasmus Darwin] and of the letter in which he told EK that Butler’s book had been advertised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 406–7
Summary:
Describes variability in the stamens and pollen of Lagerstroemia, which CD spoke of in Forms of flowers.
Also reports on similar phenomena in Pontederiacea (Heteranthera reniformis).
Has received from Paul Mayer an interesting paper on metamorphosis in Palaemonetes varians, which is also being studied by J. E. V. Boas in Denmark. Shows differences between larval development in Danish forms and those found in southern Italy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 176
Summary:
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:
Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:
Thanks for pt 6 of [Australian orchids].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 77
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Comments on Movement in plants.
Sends System der Ascrapeden [1880].
Describes work on Challenger Medusae.
Comments on success of CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
Summary:
Asks EH to call on Zeiss and to help arrange for microscope for Francis Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 145
Summary:
Contemptuous of Samuel Butler.
Has read that Huxley will be Inspector of Fisheries.
When CD visits in spring, he will acquaint him with legalities of Worthing house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B63–4
Summary:
Birthday greetings.
Thinks it best not to reply further to Butler. Has read G. J. Romanes’ article with great pleasure. Romanes is right to ridicule Butler. Quotes passages about Butler from CD letters. Has received letter from F. M. Balfour urging him not to reply to Butler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
[after 10 Feb 1881]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36219)
Summary:
CD thanks him for his congratulations and for details of letters, which he will keep with the Butlerian documents.
FD is happy for his lecture to be republished in Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josef Popper (Josef Popper-Lynkeus)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 30
Summary:
Interested in theory of flight machines. Thinks it may be possible to fly by hitching man to large birds. What does CD think?
Recalls gift of book sent to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
