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DCP-LETT-13611

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Quantity of nitrogen in castings surprises CD.

Comments on papers: [J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert, "Results of experiments on mixed herbage, pt 1", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 289–416; Gilbert, Lawes and M. T. Masters, "pt 2: The botanical results", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1882): 1181–413].

Has never made sections to see how deep worms burrow – five or six feet is probable. Wishes the problem had arisen when he made his observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13613

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 104: 175
Summary:

B. D. Jackson’s plan for new Steudel Nomenclator approved. JDH asks for CD’s cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
Summary:

Thanks for Science and culture [1881].

Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13615

From:
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 29
Summary:

Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot

and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC693

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 January 1882
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 68, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-13614

From:
Leslie Stephen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 177: 256
Summary:

Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen

and a recent visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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