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DCP-LETT-13662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
5 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0045

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 February 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

RS-MM-001692

From:
John William Dawson
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/22/30, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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FVM-82-02-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Louis Smith
Date:
6 February 1882
Source of text:
V82/1666, unit 1418, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13667

From:
Joseph Hewett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 195
Summary:

Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13665

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 468
Summary:

Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.

Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13664

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 144
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13666

From:
Sydney Howard Vines
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 180: 7
Summary:

On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.

Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001693

From:
John William Dawson
To:
Walter White
Date:
7 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/22/32, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13669

From:
William Horsfall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 145: 359
Summary:

Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.

Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
7 Feb 1882
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare and Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives
Summary:

Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.

Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13670A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
8 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

Asks EF to sign enclosed certificate if he thinks Raphael Meldola deserves being elected F.R.S. [See 13674.] Requests that his note with certificate be passed on to Norman Lockyer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Horsfall
Date:
8 Feb 1882
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:

Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.

Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 185
Summary:

Writes about WED’s purchasing a house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13673

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 222
Summary:

Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.

Sends his paper on teleosteans.

Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13674

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 164: 212
Summary:

Will not support Raphael Meldola’s application to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Trübner & Co.
Date:
9 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.616)
Summary:

Orders International scientific directory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
G. Clinch
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 143: 260
Summary:

Discusses function of bud-scales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0046

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 February [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13675

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hanson Greville (Greville) Williams
Date:
10 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 20)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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