From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[Dec 1881?]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 10)
Summary:
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
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:
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hall
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 82
Summary:
Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 197–198)
Summary:
Thanks JVC for his corrections of "stupid errata" [in Earthworms]. Explains, in answer to JVC’s query, that he has used the word "humus" as the equivalent of vegetable mould.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.603)
Summary:
Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 9
Summary:
CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.10521)
Summary:
PG’s article in Encyclopaedia Britannica wonderfully well done ["Insectivorous plants", 9th ed., 13: 134–40].
Admires PG’s researches on chlorophyll in animal kingdom ["Observations on the physiology and histology of Convoluta Schultzii", Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. 28 (1878–9): 449–57].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 9)
Summary:
Can HdV supply a reference to a paper describing a stem or a root divided longitudinally and the separate parts acted on by geotropism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Douglas James Wintle
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
DJW’s facts are new and curious. CD has other reasons to believe he was wrong in doubting the effect on earthworms of beating the ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
10 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.604)
Summary:
Declines to provide testimonial for J. C. Ewart, since he has already done so for Lankester. Was also asked by W. C. M’Intosh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 103v
Summary:
Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Preston Tilt
Date:
16 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.605)
Summary:
Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 352
Summary:
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[17 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578)
Summary:
Asks him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
17 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.606)
Summary:
Asks him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[18 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 91
Summary:
Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 [Dec 1881]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2)
Summary:
Can FG call on Monday evening?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project