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DCP-LETT-12968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:

Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:

CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
23 Feb 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 49)
Summary:

CD interested by FM’s facts on movement of plants; has sent some to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9]. Greatly admires FM’s work. Suggests an experiment to investigate movement in Phyllanthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Mar 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 50)
Summary:

FM’s view on meaning of two-coloured stamens in many flowers; CD has been looking through his old notes on dimorphism for supporting evidence. Intends to send extract of FM’s letter to Nature or to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
29 Mar 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254 f. 104)
Summary:

Thanks EBT for gift of Anthropology [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 Apr 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 51)
Summary:

Earthworm book with printer.

Has sent FM’s observations on paraheliotropism to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9].

Plants with differently coloured anthers.

Intends gathering together his notes on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 97-8)
Summary:

Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13141A

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Summary:

CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218)
Summary:

CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
21 June 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 52)
Summary:

Wants seeds of heterostyled plants to test fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Offers £100 to FM to replace books lost in flooding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-13243

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Will order Progress and poverty. Comments on ARW’s political interests and his own absorption in W. Graham’s The creed of science.

His sojourn at Ullswater: "life has become very wearisome to me".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2)
Summary:

Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Sept [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5)
Summary:

Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
10 Sept 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no : 54)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s account of Pandanus and Oxalis to Nature ["Leaves injured at night by free radiation", Nature 24 (1881): 459].

Is crossing heterostyled plants.

Hopes to get his notes on bloom together.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13419

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

DCP-LETT-13463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 Nov 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 104–5)
Summary:

Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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