From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Collier
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6513)
Summary:
Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.
Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].
JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Louis Smith
Date:
16 February 1882
Source of text:
W82/1723, 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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 February 1882
Source of text:
RBG Kew, illustrations collections, with image of Macrozamia spiralisThe letter is attached to a mounted photographic print, the mount of which contains the pencilled caption 'Port Jackson | duplicate recd June 19. 82 | Macrozamia spiralis'. The date suggests that this print is more likely to have been sent with M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 8 May 1882 (in this edition as 82-05-08a)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 8)
Summary:
Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giuseppe Merighi
Date:
16 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara (MS II:423)
Summary:
CD’s observations on the geology of S. Africa, which he considers of no value, were published in Volcanic islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks HWB to sign and return F.R.S. certificate for Raphael Meldola; if he objects to signing, CD will not mention the fact. [Meldola elected F.R.S., June 1886.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
Date:
17 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Summary:
CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Barnard
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 February 1882
Source of text:
RSA/B.2 letter press copy book, p. 308, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart.For a summary of this letter see RSA/B/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Engelmann
Date:
19 February 1882
Source of text:
George Engelmann papers, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 February 1882
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brown
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6289/23)
Summary:
Has heard that Brown is collecting subscriptions for Mrs George Cupples and so he encloses £40.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 February 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Ada Harriet Miser; Ada Harriet Kepley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 7
Summary:
An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 February 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: MLDA/1921
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
21 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36222)
Summary:
His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 175
Summary:
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
22 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/17/120, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 296
Summary:
Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Astley, G. S.1
- Bailey, Frederick2
- Barnard, James1
- Barrett, William Fletcher1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Bentham, George1
- Brown, John1
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Buchanan, John1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Clinch, G.1
- Collier, John1
- Cooper, J. D.2
- Crick, W. D.2
- Darwin, C. R.31
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.5
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Engelmann, George1
- Fox, F. J.1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Hector, James1
- Holub, Emil1
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Horner, K. M.1
- Horsfall, William1
- Hughes, F. J.1
- Johnson, Henry (b)2
- Leng, H. H.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Lyell, J. C.1
- Lyell, K. M.1
- Mackintosh, Daniel1
- Meldola, Raphael4
- Merighi, Giuseppe1
- Mitten, William1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von4
- Nicholson, G. S.1
- Ogle, William1
- Reade, A. A.1
- Rich, Anthony1
- Royal Geographical Society1
- Royal Society1
- Smith, Louis2
- Steffen, Max1
- Stokes, George Gabriel1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William1
- Thompson, D’A. W.1
- Trübner & Co.1
- Tyndall, John1
- Vines, S. H.1
- White, Walter3
- Williams, Greville1
- [Thiselton-Dyer, William]1
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