To G. J. Romanes 18 April 1881
Summary
Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.
Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.588) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13124 |
From Kate Barnes 18 April 1881
Summary
Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.
| Author: | Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13125 |
From H. B. Taylor 18 April 1881
Summary
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
| Author: | Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13126 |
From Werner von Voigts-Rhetz [after 18 April 1881]
Summary
On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.
| Author: | Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 18 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13127 |
| letter | (4) |
| Barnes, Kate | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Taylor, Helen Biggs | (1) |
| Voigts-Rhetz, Werner von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Barnes, Kate | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Taylor, Helen Biggs | (1) |
| Voigts-Rhetz, Werner von | (1) |
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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William Darwin Fox
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Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…
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St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
