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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[February–June 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 872
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1881
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1881
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
1 February 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen correspondence, vol. XIX, ff. 386-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Henry ("Harry") Edwards
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 February 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 134
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:
Worm observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis William Newman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 February 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/210
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:
Discusses investments.
The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 February 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, unnumbered folio after f. 296
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
5 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Asks whether vegetable mould has an acid reaction. The contents of intestines of earthworms and castings are acid, which leads him to inquire about mould.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:
Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/62)
Summary:
Comments on CGS’s The natural conditions of existence [1881] and on views of Moritz Wagner on geographical distribution.
Discusses cause of variability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 Feb 1881
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36214)
Summary:
Butler’s reply to EK is a renewed attack on CD. Urges EK not to answer it. His last letter contains everything necessary. Asks EK for dates of CD’s letter asking EK’s permission to publish a translation of his article [on Erasmus Darwin] and of the letter in which he told EK that Butler’s book had been advertised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 406–7
Summary:
Describes variability in the stamens and pollen of Lagerstroemia, which CD spoke of in Forms of flowers.
Also reports on similar phenomena in Pontederiacea (Heteranthera reniformis).
Has received from Paul Mayer an interesting paper on metamorphosis in Palaemonetes varians, which is also being studied by J. E. V. Boas in Denmark. Shows differences between larval development in Danish forms and those found in southern Italy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Horace Seymour
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Alfred Russel Wallace Papers
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters