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DCP-LETT-13677

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 469
Summary:

Slab with annelid tracks being sent. Memorandum enclosed describing bed from which it came.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13677F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.

Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13679

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 348–9
Summary:

Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13678

From:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 253
Summary:

Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13681

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 8 (EH 88205925)
Summary:

Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.

CD feels "as old as Methusalem".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13683

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-15)
Summary:

Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].

Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.

Recalls happy days at Penally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707)
Summary:

Thanks for AD’s letter.

Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.

F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-02-13c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Buchanan
Date:
13 February 1882
Source of text:
A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-82-02-13b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
13 February 1882
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-82-02-13a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Mitten
Date:
13 February 1882
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to W Mitten, 1848-1905, ff. 210-13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-82-02-13

From:
Kalakaua, King of Hawaii
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 February 1882
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.50, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Arthur Reade
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 292
Summary:

Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13684

From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 61
Summary:

Birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for the birthday greetings.

"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 32 (EH 88205970)
Summary:

Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 353–353/1
Summary:

Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-02-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 February 1882
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-82-02-14a

From:
Theodor Fischer
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 February 1882
Source of text:
83/133, unit 119, VPRS 805/P inward registered correspondence, VA 913 Public Library of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13688

From:
James L. Ambrose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 201: 2
Summary:

Asks for autographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-02-15b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
15 February 1882
Source of text:
MU 94, box 6 (5410/82), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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