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
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 |
From T. D. Spain 19 April 1881
Author: | Thomas Dixon Spain |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13128 |
From G. R. Jesse 19 April 1881
Summary
Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.
Author: | George Richard Jesse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 60; DAR 168: 62/1 and 62/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13129 |
From G. R. Jesse to The Times 19 April 1881
Summary
Disagrees with CD’s defence of English physiologist. See also 13129.
Author: | George Richard Jesse |
Addressee: | The Times |
Date: | 19 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Standard, 26 April 1881, p.4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13129F |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 April [1881]
Summary
Wants Trifolium seed.
Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 220–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13130 |
To G. R. Jesse 21 April 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Richard Jesse |
Date: | 21 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13131 |
To The Times 21 April [1881]
Summary
Replies to F. P. Cobbe’s letter [Times 19 Apr 1881] accusing CD of having misinformed his Swedish correspondent about the findings of the Royal Commission on vivisection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Times |
Date: | 21 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | The Times, 22 April 1881, p. 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13132 |
From G. R. Jesse 22 April 1881
Summary
Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.
Author: | George Richard Jesse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13133 |
From G. J. Romanes 22 April [1881]
Summary
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13134 |
To T. D. Spain 23 April 1881
Summary
Cannot give lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Dixon Spain |
Date: | 23 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00524) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13135 |
To G. R. Jesse 23 April 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Richard Jesse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13136 |
From I. P. Bishop 24 April 1881
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.
Author: | Irving Prescott Bishop |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13137 |
To G. J. Romanes 25 April 1881
Summary
Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 25 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13138 |
To J. C. Lyell 25 April 1881
Summary
Thanks for gift of JCL’s book on pigeons (J. C. Lyell 1881).
Declines to endorse it, because he lacks the time to read it with sufficient care.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Carmichael Lyell |
Date: | 25 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13138F |
From G. R. Jesse 25 April 1881
Summary
Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.
Author: | George Richard Jesse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13139 |
To C. E. Norton 30 April 1881
Summary
Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13140 |
To Eduard Koch 30 April 1881
Summary
Thanks for German translation of Movement in plants.
Glad Kosmos is to be continued [by Schweizerbart].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4o 333a. No 77, 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Jesse, G. R. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Barnes, Kate | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Jesse, G. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Jesse, G. R. | (6) |
Romanes, G. J. | (5) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |