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DCP-LETT-13712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ignatius Loyola (Ignatius) Donnelly
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Minnesota Historical Society (Ignatius Donnelly papers)
Summary:

Thanks ID for a copy of his book, Atlantis [1882], which CD will read with interest but "in a very sceptical spirit".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 12 (EH 88205937)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13719

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jules Henri (Jules) Barrois
Date:
[after 6 Mar 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 28
Summary:

Strongly supports the proposed biological laboratory at Villefranche.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13722

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
10 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36226)
Summary:

Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
11 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders morphia pills in case of severe pain, which he hopes may never occur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13725

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10897

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
18 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1)
Summary:

Orders two bottles of "the simple Antispasmodic" and "the Glycerin Pepsin mixture". Andrew Clark wishes him to commence his physic at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jenner
Date:
20 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 82
Summary:

Much regrets the state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/33)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13733

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Symington Grieve
Date:
22 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Scotsman , 18 January 1929, p. 12
Summary:

Subject of SG’s essay would be well worth pursuing. CD has long known that stones were transported by floating Fuci, but not that they were dragged along the sea-bottom.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13734

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36228)
Summary:

Shell smashed by careless servant. May have been Cyclas cornea. Will send letter to Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13737

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henshaw Newberry
Date:
24 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 147: 188
Summary:

Mechanism of flowers of Maranta has already been described by F. H. G. Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13741

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
26 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36230)
Summary:

Will send letter to Nature about shell [attached to beetle]. Will use old name of Cyclas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10522)
Summary:

Recommends PG for chair of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13745

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Groves
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46917: 65)
Summary:

Thanks HG for kind offer. CD is not well enough to examine the Utricularia, but will try to look at the Nitella.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13744

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 371)
Summary:

Feels better. Grateful for THH’s kind letter. Wishes there were more automata like him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
28 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

GCW has correctly expressed CD’s views when he says he intentionally left the question of the origin of life uncanvassed as being altogether ultra vires in the present state of our knowledge. Thinks he may somewhere have said that principle of continuity renders it possible that the principle of life will be shown to be a part of, or consequence of, some general law.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr Loct
Date:
29 Mar 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.617)
Summary:

Thinks Mr Loct[?] ought to have sent an addressed envelope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13748F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fol. 11)
Summary:

Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13748A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar 1882
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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