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FVM-81-07-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
July 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1877-82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1416

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 258: 874
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13228

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 79
Summary:

Thanks CD for offer of financial support. Discusses application for funds for Ceylon trip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13229

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896 , p. 119
Summary:

Has told John Collier to write to CD to arrange for portrait.

Will read [W. Graham’s] Creed of science.

Has got into row with W. B. Carpenter over thought-reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:
3 and 6 July 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0017)
Summary:

Thanks Fd’AF for his interesting letter. CD suggests observations it would be worth making [in the Azores] although he is too old to make any direct use of them. Fauna and flora of different islands should be compared and the plants and animals from all high mountain summits collected. Suggests Fd’AF investigate the presence of glacial deposits and fossils on the islands. Survival of eggs in salt-water should be tested, as the wide distribution of lizards, land molluscs, and earthworms is a perplexing problem.

Will be very glad to read the essays Fd’AF sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Graham
Date:
3 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 144: 345
Summary:

Praises WG’s Creed of science.

He disagrees that the existence of natural laws implies purpose, but his "inmost conviction" is that "the Universe is not the result of chance". But then has horrid doubt whether convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from lower animals, are at all trustworthy.

Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0908

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 July 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 267
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 July 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 53)
Summary:

Movement of plants to shake off water: FM’s invaluable observations.

Inquires about "bloom" on leaves.

Fertilisation of Melastomataceae, roles of the two sets of anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 July [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.594)
Summary:

Is returning to Down.

Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
6 July 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/21)
Summary:

Comments on FMB’s book [Treatise on comparative embryology, 2 vols. (1880–1)]. Had already purchased copy. Could second copy be sent to someone else? Fritz Müller?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13234

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
6 July [1881]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Will be glad to read over her article.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13236

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
6 July [1881]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a "grand volume" [vol. 3 of Monographiae phanerogamarum (1878–96)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2014

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 July 1881
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 364-365
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 154-155]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 8 July 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 82v
Summary:

A stock certificate has arrived for FD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 211: 85
Summary:

Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.

Is going over revises of Earthworms.

Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13239

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 27
Summary:

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[9 July 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 71
Summary:

Reports splendid cases of "paraheliotropism" which he now believes is one of the commonest movements of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13238

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 106: B154–5
Summary:

Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1992

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1881
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B154-155
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 310
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 317-318]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13240

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 30
Summary:

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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