To G. J. Romanes 24 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 June [1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10813 |
From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
To G. J. Romanes [17 December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [17 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12382 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392G |
From T. H. Farrer 2 January [1881]
Summary
Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.
Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12395 |
From Lawrence Ruck 12 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses the grazing habits of sheep and cattle on steep hillsides.
Author: | Lawrence Ruck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12417 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 February [1881]
Summary
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12498 |
From W. R. Browne [20–2] November [1881]
Summary
Announces intention to hold a private conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury with the aim of encouraging men of science to reaffirm their religious beliefs and also to publish a series of articles in the Contemporary Review on the state of the various sciences.
Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20–2] Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12789 |
To Julius Lippert [May 1881 or later]
Summary
Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Lippert |
Date: | [May 1881 or later] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12959 |
From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield [11 June 1881]
Author: | Laura Mary Forster |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | [11 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12960 |
To G. H. Darwin [before 25 October 1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12961 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach [before 20 June 1881]
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.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 June 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12962 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 1 and 6 January 1881
Summary
Thanks VOK for the Russian tea.
Rejoices at his prosperity and appointment at Moscow [Associate Professor, Moscow University, 1880–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 1 and 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler (Sophie Kowalevski collections, box 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12963 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 January 1881
Summary
ARW’s view of migration of plants from mountain to mountain gains support from case described in Nature [23 (1880): 125–6] by J. G. Baker. Identical species of alpine plants found in African mountains and Madagascar.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 271.6: a6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12964 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 [June] 1881
Summary
Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".
Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 [June] 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12965 |
To James Torbitt [5] January 1881
Summary
T. H. Farrer and James Caird express great interest in JT’s report. Have instructed CD to hold £90 for use by JT in spring. Caird asks that potatoes be sent to his gardener for trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | [5] Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12966 |
To A. R. Wallace 2 January 1881
Summary
On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12968 |
From Ernst Krause 2 January 1881
Summary
Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.
Report of Jäger accident was an error.
Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12969 |
To H. W. Bates 3 January 1881
Summary
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12970 |
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