From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:
Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:
Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.
G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Rick Northwood (private collection)
Summary:
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:
Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:
There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shaw Billings
Date:
8 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:
Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63, 1988)
Summary:
Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Walbank Buckland
Date:
10 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 176
Summary:
Does not believe imagination of mother can affect new-born infant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Peter Price
Date:
[after 10 Oct 1881?]
Source of text:
Western Mail , 6 April 1883, p. 4
Summary:
Giving his opinion on the possible role of earthworms in the dilapidation of a pier in Llandaff Cathedral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 170
Summary:
Thanks TLB for the collection of his writings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
12 Oct 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Owes much to Birmingham and great honour conferred on him, but cannot write what RLT wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
13 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 33
Summary:
Says that salt water kills earthworms.
Interested in ERL’s study of worm anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.598)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for his review of Earthworms [Nature 24 (1881): 553–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 86
Summary:
Has been reading Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Comments that it is "an excellent book, but he vivisects me in the most grievous terms, but most effectively".
Has been experimenting on aggregation of chlorophyll but with little success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
18 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:
Can think of no suggestion to send to Mrs Forsyth. "The best plan is to read, think and speculate and then some suggestion or doubt will occur which can be determined or verified out of observation."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[18 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 8)
Summary:
Delighted to hear that HdeV intends working on the causes of variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 87
Summary:
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 55)
Summary:
Is in Cambridge with his son, resting
and reading F. M. Balfour’s Comparative embryology [1880–1].
Sent FM a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
24 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 146: 19
Summary:
Thanks for specimen of Dischidia. Will ask Hooker who might dissect it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project