From Ernst Haeckel 1 July 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for offer of financial support. Discusses application for funds for Ceylon trip.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13228 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 July [1881]
Summary
Has told John Collier to write to CD to arrange for portrait.
Will read [W. Graham’s] Creed of science.
Has got into row with W. B. Carpenter over thought-reading.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13229 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 9 July 1881
Summary
AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13239 |
From F. M. Balfour 10 July 1881
Summary
Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13240 |
From W. W. Gull 10 July 1881
Summary
Would be honoured if CD would come to dine with him, distinguished foreign guests, and H.R.H. Prince of Wales, on 3 Aug, the opening of the [7th International Medical] Congress.
Author: | William Withey Gull, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13241 |
From Francis Darwin 16 July 1881
Summary
Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245F |
From C. G. Semper 16 July 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind judgment on his book [The natural conditions of existence (1881)].
E. Ray Lankester has written an unfriendly review of it [Nature 23 (1880–1): 405–9].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13246 |
From Francis Darwin [25 July 1881]
Summary
Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 July 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13252F |
From Leopold Würtenberger 26 July 1881
Summary
Has not been able to win a position that would allow him to conduct research. Seeks technical job instead. Asks for loan to tide himself over probationary period.
Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13253 |
From Lawson Tait 29 July 1881
Summary
Points out what he believes to be two errors in CD’s paper on inheritance [Nature 24 (1881): 257; Collected papers 2: 230–1].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13257 |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 29 July 1881
Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 114a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13258 |
From James Dawson 30 July 1881
Summary
The material for his Australian aborigines was collected by his daughter, who had lived among them from age three to fifteen.
Will try to verify a story he heard that there are pouched or marsupial rabbits in Australia.
Author: | James Dawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13262 |
From E. L. Jellinek 30 July 1881
Author: | Edward Lincoln Jellinek |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13263 |
From G. E. Mengozzi 31 July 1881
Summary
Forwards to CD the diploma of "Presidente Onorario degli Anziana Pitagorica".
Author: | Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13266 |
From R. F. Cooke 28 July 1881
Summary
Surprised by CD’s intention to publish [Earthworms] so soon. Remonstrates against doing so. Asks deferment until October to co-ordinate with American publication and ensure best profit.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 515 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13255 |
From R. F. Cooke 30 July 1881
Summary
Hastens to assure CD that his book [Earthworms] will be published as soon as possible, since CD wishes it.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 516 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13261 |
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Darwin, Francis | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |