To J. D. Cooper 4 February 1882
Summary
Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Davis Cooper |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13658 |
To Anthony Rich 4 February 1882
Summary
Exchanges news on health.
Thanks AR for his worm observations.
George Darwin’s work is attracting attention; he intends to try for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge. Adds other news of George and of CD’s sons Leonard and William.
CD has finished his microscopic work and has only to write up two papers for the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anthony Rich |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A44–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13659 |
From A. T. Rice 4 February 1882
Summary
The editor of North American Review asks CD to write an article in support of systematic observations of mental development in infants.
Author: | Charles Allen Thorndike (Allen) (Thorndike) Rice |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13660 |
To Emil Holub 4 February 1882
Summary
Thanks EH for book on ornithology of South Africa and for his essays [Beiträge zur Ornithologie Südafrikas von Aug. von Holub und E. Pelzeln (1882)].
Will be pleased to see him when he comes to England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Holub |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Národní Muzeum, Prague |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13661 |
To S. H. Vines 4 February 1882
Summary
CD will put together his notes on the action of carbonate of ammonia on roots in a few days. Asks SHV to send any information he may have, but not to answer if he has none. [See 13666.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Date: | 4 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13661A |
To Raphael Meldola 5 February 1882
Summary
Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 5 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13662 |
From T. G. Bonney 5 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for writing. Had disbelieved the story. He has seen Dr Hahn’s slides and it is clear that Hahn cannot distinguish between mineral and organic structures.
Author: | Thomas George Bonney |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 246, 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13663 |
From Raphael Meldola 6 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13664 |
From Henry Johnson 6 February 1882
Summary
Offers CD gift of slab with fossil annelid tracks.
Does CD know geologist who might give lecture in Dudley?
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 468 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13665 |
From S. H. Vines 6 February 1882
Summary
On aggregation of protoplasm in root cells.
Is preparing new edition of Sachs [Text-book of botany, morphological and physical, ed. S. H. Vines, 2d ed. (1882)].
Author: | Sydney Howard Vines |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13666 |
From Joseph Hewett 6 February 1882
Summary
Can he improve his oat crop by growing home-grown and purchased cereals together?
Author: | Joseph Hewett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13667 |
To Henry Johnson 7 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for offer of sandstone with annelid tracks.
Suggests J. W. Judd, "most able of living geologists", as lecturer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 7 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare and Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13668 |
From William Horsfall 7 February 1882
Summary
Asks about significance of trilobites for evolution.
Asks if any organism can be designated as animal in one stage and vegetable in another.
Author: | William Horsfall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13669 |
To William Horsfall 8 February 1882
Summary
Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.
Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Horsfall |
Date: | 8 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13670 |
To Edward Frankland 8 February 1882
Summary
Asks EF to sign enclosed certificate if he thinks Raphael Meldola deserves being elected F.R.S. [See 13674.] Requests that his note with certificate be passed on to Norman Lockyer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 8 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13670A |
To Trübner & Co. 9 February [1882]
Summary
Orders International scientific directory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Trübner & Co. |
Date: | 9 Feb [1882] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.616) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13671 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 February 1882
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January [1882]
Summary
CD’s division of his surplus income; fire engines; Sara Darwin’s relatives; GHD’s paper in Nature.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1882] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13672F |
From Anton Dohrn 9 February 1882
Summary
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13673 |
From Edward Frankland 9 February 1882
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13674 |
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