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From T. L. Brunton   21 November 1881

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Thanks CD for his offer of assistance to David Ferrier.

Discusses CD’s earthworm book.

Tonsils in man as rudimentary organs.

Author:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 160: 346
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13496

From Frederick Capes   21 November 1881

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Reports extract of spurge [Euphorbia] killing earthworms.

Author:  Frederick Capes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 161: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13497

From W. E. Darwin   21 November 1881

Summary

Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13497F

From George King   21 November 1881

Summary

Thanks for Earthworms.

Glad CD liked the Dischidia drawing. GK wishes he could see it in the wild to study its habits and those of the insects that visit it.

Author:  George King
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 169: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13498

From W. C. McIntosh   21 November 1881

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Asks for a testimonial for the Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.

Author:  William Carmichael McIntosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 202: 110
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13499

From Francisco de Arruda Furtado    21 November 1881

Summary

The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.

Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.

Author:  Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13500

To W. C. McIntosh   [after 21 November 1881]

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Must refuse WCM’s request to revise E. Ray Lankester's testimonial.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:  [after 21 Nov 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 110v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13501

From Francis Darwin to George King   [after 21 November 1881]

Summary

CD asks him to say that the beautiful specimens of Dischidia arrived safely.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  George King
Date:  [after 21 Nov 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 113b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13501F

From Thomas Birkett   22 November 1881

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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.

Author:  Thomas Birkett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 160: 310
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13502

From G. H. Darwin   [22 November 1881]

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Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Nov 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13503

To T. L. Brunton   22 November 1881

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Writes to ask how much he should subscribe to fund for David Ferrier.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:  22 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 160: 351
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13504

To W. P. Snow   22 November 1881

Summary

Hopes WPS may succeed with a new edition of his book [see 13495]. WPS saw so much more of the natives of Tierra del Fuego than did CD and his opinion of them is probably right.

Discourages him from visiting.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Parker Snow
Date:  22 Nov 1881
Classmark:  National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13505

To S. H. Vines   22 November 1881

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Rows of cells with granular matter following treatment with carbonate of ammonia also found in white and young rootlets of common zonal Pelargonium. Differs slightly from Euphorbia in that 2, 3, 4, or 5 rows often adjoin. CD wrong in supposing that these rows of cells were connected with lacticiferous ducts ("milk-tubes"). Root hairs arise exclusively from rows of cells without brownish granular matter. It appears that certain rows of cells with hairs are absorbent and store matter of some kind. This is a new view of the structure and function of rootlets. Francis Darwin will soon set up the salt solution to make the experiment SHV recommends.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Sydney Howard Vines
Date:  22 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 185: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13505A

To Frederick Capes   23 November 1881

Summary

Discusses milk ducts in Euphorbia [spurge].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frederick Capes
Date:  23 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 143: 204
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13506

To ?   23 November 1881

Summary

Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  23 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13507

To P. P. C. Hoek   23 November 1881

Summary

Thanks him for magnificent work on Pycnogonida [The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, vol. 3, part 10 (1881)].

Is delighted that he is undertaking the Cirripedia [1883–4].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:  23 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13507A

To A. R. Wallace   23 November 1881

Summary

At Mrs Lyell’s request, passes on a spare copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  23 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into Alfred Russel Wallace’s copy of K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 (L ARW 28))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13507F

From Gustav Wegner   24 November 1881

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Reports observing two wheat flowers that bent towards each other and pressed together in a "quick throbbing motion".

Author:  Gustav Friedrich Edmund (Gustav) Wegner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 201: 41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13508

From S. H. Vines   24 November [1881]

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Will observe the granular cells in roots, to investigate CD’s observation that root-hairs spring from cells that are not granular. Hopes they may be soluble in [carbonate of ammonia] solution.

Author:  Sydney Howard Vines
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 62: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13509

From C.-F. Reinwald   24 November 1881

Summary

Concerning French translation of Earthworms

and Movement in plants.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 176: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13510
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