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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".
Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Thanks for letter about Pontederia.
Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.
Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Sends a published diary [Das Kind, 2d ed. (1876)] in which he recorded the early growth of his first child. Hopes it may find an English translator.
Observations on movements of leaves of Erythrina crista-galli in green-house and out of doors.
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.
Asks for a loan.
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
