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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.
CD and other friends who got up fund for GA in 1879 have now bought him a microscope; thanks CD, especially as the idea came from him; plans to take up original observations with it.
Asks for autographs.
Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.
The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.
Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.
Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.
Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.
Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.
Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Twelve "Revised Directions" for CD’s treatment, mainly diet.
Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].
Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.
Sends an account of a combat between a frog and a worm.
Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.
Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.
Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.
Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.
According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Describes grafting experiment of Baron de Villa Franca, which produced new varieties of sugar-cane. Encloses related documents.