From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 97
Summary:
Occupied with details of E. A. Darwin’s house and furniture. He has ordered a gravestone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 October 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. ff. 334-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
18 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:
Can think of no suggestion to send to Mrs Forsyth. "The best plan is to read, think and speculate and then some suggestion or doubt will occur which can be determined or verified out of observation."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 176: 7
Summary:
CD will be figured tomorrow in Punch. The artist, Linley Sambourne, expresses his deep respect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 8)
Summary:
Delighted to hear that HdeV intends working on the causes of variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B156–7
Summary:
Thanks for book [Earthworms]. Asks whether leaf-mould is not formed by decay as well as by the agency of worms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 October 1881
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B156-157
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 314
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 320]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project