From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Valentine Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 37
Summary:
Has received CD’s acknowledgment, through Ernest De La Rue, for the copy he sent of Jungle life [in India (1880)].
Offers to collect material for CD on his return to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 43
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules Henri (Jules) Barrois
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 13
Summary:
The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Smith Bartleet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52
Summary:
Has read Earthworms.
Wonders if CD has studied gnats; inquires about their apparently useless hovering over one spot for hours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Morton Walker Baynes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 99
Summary:
Reports remarkable case of inheritance of one of his habits by his infant son.
Contributor:
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 171
Summary:
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 172
Summary:
Pleased to sign certificate for Francis Darwin.
Has never underrated importance of [plant] physiological studies, especially when carried out as FD has been doing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:
Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.
Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.
Contributor:
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From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:
Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Birkett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 310
Summary:
Has read Earthworms; would like to know if his friend’s belief is true that worms, if not destroyed, eat the tender rootlets of grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Irving Prescott Bishop
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 188
Summary:
Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,
and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 5
Summary:
Mentions Mastodon remains that he has seen.
Praises CD and his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Boehm, J. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
7 February 1883
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 247
Summary:
Wishes to know veracity of a report of CD’s reactions on seeing certain slides of supposedly organic material from meteorites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas George Bonney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 246, 248
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Breese
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 289
Summary:
Sends CD an abstract of his 1871 paper on the earthworm, and requests information on the phenomenon of luminosity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 294
Summary:
Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 16
Summary:
Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.
Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.
Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.
Sends paper from Kosmos.
Expects to spend several years in Brazil.
Contributor:
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