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DCP-LETT-12965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:

Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".

Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:

No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dawson
Date:
[3 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116v
Summary:

Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June 1881
Source of text:
Francisco Ayala (private collection)
Summary:

Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 [June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 80
Summary:

Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 6 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 81
Summary:

Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].

Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 104
Summary:

Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.

Describes events at Patterdale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Regrets that he has not strength enough to visit [Rothamsted].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13203F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William (William) Siemens; Anne Gordon; Anne Siemens
Date:
13 June 1881
Source of text:
English Electric Co. 1953, p. 165
Summary:

Regrets that CD’s health does not allow him to accept any invitations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 513–15
Summary:

CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[16 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 98v
Summary:

Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13208H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Mosley Lloyd
Date:
17 June 1881
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Is obliged to RML for pointing out an error in Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
20 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 145
Summary:

Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 516–17
Summary:

Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.

Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
21 June 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 52)
Summary:

Wants seeds of heterostyled plants to test fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Offers £100 to FM to replace books lost in flooding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Ballantyne Hannay
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.592)
Summary:

Suggests modification in JBH’s experiment on formation of diamonds.

Speculates about chemical products of constituents of living organisms when subjected to heat and pressure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364)
Summary:

Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530)
Summary:

Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
25 June 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.593)
Summary:

Congratulates him on Mastodon discovery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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