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From:
Francis Wedgwood Sr
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
1 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 230: 83
Summary:
CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 263
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 264
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Gilbert Whiteman
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 354
Summary:
Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich August Tscherning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 195
Summary:
Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 258
Summary:
Thanks for letter expressing CD’s position with regard to experiments on living animals and for getting the letter printed in the Times [18 Apr 1881, Collected papers 2: 226–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[10 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 265
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 72
Summary:
Copies of FD’s paper have arrived ["The theory of growth", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19]. Does he want them dispatched?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 70
Summary:
News from the laboratory at Strasbourg; is working on Equisetum roots. Wortmann has found circumnutation in the mycelium of a fast-growing fungus. Please send papers (see 13155).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz
Date:
14 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 50
Summary:
CD defends English physiologists on vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 113
Summary:
Sends his review of Movement in plants from Die Gartenlaube.
Comments on the future prospects of Kosmos.
Comments on review of Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory by Romanes in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7] and Romanes’ reply to Butler [pp. 335–6].
Asks whether he might have a chapter of Earthworms to print in Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
16 and 17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 73
Summary:
Some papers have arrived for FD.
Comments on the work of Phillipe van Tieghem who evidently knows nothing of insectivorous plants.
Leslie Stephen’s visit to Down went off well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11
Summary:
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
18 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 129
Summary:
Sends £90 [for experiments on potatoes]. Sorry JT cannot get his varieties well enough known to ensure large sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 72
Summary:
Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
20 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 74
Summary:
Thanks FD for his excellent corrections [to MS of Earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project