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DCP-LETT-13701

From:
John Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 209
Summary:

Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].

Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:

Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001694

From:
John William Dawson
To:
Walter White
Date:
22 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/22/33, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-13699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 5
Summary:

Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13697F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Summary:

Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13702

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

RM’s application to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White
Date:
23 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism (RL.00413): James Botteley and Charles Hart autograph book)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to suspend an enclosed certificate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13705

From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 264
Summary:

Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 114
Summary:

Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13707

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:

Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13706

From:
Albert George Dew-Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 176
Summary:

F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13709

From:
Albert Venn Dicey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 162: 177
Summary:

Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13709F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Carmichael Lyell
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Cannot find in his library the translation made by Walter Elliot of a Persian tract on pigeons by Sayzid Mohammed Musari.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13708

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 13
Summary:

Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13709A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hilary Howard Leng
Date:
26 Feb 1882
Source of text:
St George’s College Library, Quilmes, Argentina (tipped into a copy of Earthworms that belonged to Leng)
Summary:

CD cannot answer his question concerning the death of earthworms. The usual cause is through parasitic larva of a fly. Worms are susceptible to certain poisons from plants.

Glad his book [Earthworms] has interested HHL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13347F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 113)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-82-02-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 February 1882
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13710

From:
William Thomson Van Dyck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 180: 3
Summary:

Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0048

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
28 February 1882
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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