From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 114
Summary:
Asks CD for a testimonial as he is a candidate for Chair in Zoology at Oxford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
25 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 15)
Summary:
Gives his high opinion of HNM’s abilities.
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:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 261
Summary:
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 262
Summary:
Thanks CD for support in his election as Linacre Professor at Oxford.
J. Y. Buchanan, of the Challenger, says deep-sea red mud is fine because, like CD’s vegetable mould, it has been digested by worms and echinoderms.
Visited by John MacNeile Price, the son of CD’s friend from Chile, Mr Price; the son is now Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 263
Summary:
He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project