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From Hyacinth Hooker   7 January 1882

Summary

Thanks CD for financial assistance for Mr Fitch and his wife.

Author:  Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 104: 244–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13602

To the Darwin children   8 January 1882

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Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  8 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 185: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13603

From J. W. Judd   8 January 1882

Summary

Praises G. H. Darwin’s letter ["On the geological importance of the tides", Nature 25 (1882): 213–14] which criticises the use made of George Darwin’s views by Robert Ball ["A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82, 103–7]. JWJ argues from the fineness of Cambrian sediments against Ball’s intensification of geological forces. Massive Carboniferous river deltas also contradict Ball’s excessively high tides.

Author:  John Wesley Judd
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 168: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13604

From J. H. Gilbert   9 January 1882

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Thanks CD for Earthworms.

Discusses the problem of accounting for difference between nitrogen in permanent grassland and ordinary arable soil. Finds castings of earthworms rich in nitrogen. Asks CD if his observations enable him to explain the source. If from below top-soil, it would be a considerable manuring.

Author:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 165: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13605

From Gottlieb Haberlandt   9 January 1882

Summary

Sends his paper on the comparative anatomy of the assimilatory tissue systems of plants [Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 13 (1882): 74–188]. This work has made clear to him how CD’s principles produce rich results when applied to plant anatomy.

Also sends a paper on the difficult problem of the gulf between cryptogamic and phanerogamic plants in the evolutionary development, in order to present another proof of the continuity of the phylogenetic development of the plant kingdom.

Author:  Gottlieb Haberlandt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 166: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13606

To C. A. Kennard   9 January 1882

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Thinks that "women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually". Believes that men and women may have been aboriginally equal in this respect but that to regain equality women would have to "become as regular ""bread-winners"" as are men". Suspects the education of children and "the happiness of our homes" would greatly suffer in that case.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
Date:  9 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 185: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13607

To James Torbitt   10 January 1882

Summary

CD’s gardener reports that potatoes were not attacked by disease, but yield was not good. Noble of JT to plan the return of subscriptions if trade continues to improve.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Torbitt
Date:  10 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 148: 130
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13608

To T. H. Farrer   10 January 1882

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Requests that THF forward an enclosure if he thinks it proper. James Torbitt’s blunder in using the pollen of a diseased variety accounts for the bad varieties raised last year.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:  10 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Surrey History Centre (T. H. Farrer papers 9609/4/1/16 (part) by permission of Emma Corke)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13608A

From Raphael Meldola   11 January 1882

Summary

Wishes to borrow Weismann’s pamphlet on the Daphnidae [ "Ueber die Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden", Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30 (Supp.)]. Is preparing an essay on "alternation of generations".

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 171: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13609

To F. J. Cohn   11 January 1882

Summary

Thanks FJC for presentation copy [of Die Pflanze (1882)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:  11 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 143: 270
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13610

From Francis Darwin to Raphael Meldola   12 January 1882

Summary

CD happy to lend Weismann’s pamphlet to RM.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13611

To T. H. Huxley   12 January 1882

Summary

Thanks for Science and culture [1881].

Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13612

From J. D. Hooker   12 January 1882

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B. D. Jackson’s plan for new Steudel Nomenclator approved. JDH asks for CD’s cheque.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 104: 175
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13613

From Leslie Stephen   12 January 1882

Summary

Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen

and a recent visit to Down.

Author:  Leslie Stephen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 256
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13614

From F. B. Sanborn   12 January 1882

Summary

Sends CD some of the [American Social Science] Association’s publications; asks if they may enrol him as a corresponding member. They have printed CD’s letter to Mrs Talbot

and also his paper from Mind (1877) ["Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Author:  Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13615

To J. H. Gilbert   12 January 1882

Summary

Quantity of nitrogen in castings surprises CD.

Comments on papers: [J. B. Lawes and J. H. Gilbert, "Results of experiments on mixed herbage, pt 1", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 289–416; Gilbert, Lawes and M. T. Masters, "pt 2: The botanical results", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1882): 1181–413].

Has never made sections to see how deep worms burrow – five or six feet is probable. Wishes the problem had arisen when he made his observations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:  12 Jan 1882
Classmark:  Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13616

From T. H. Farrer   13 January 1882

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Potatoes [from Torbitt experiment] sent him for eating were very poor. Those for seed produced abundantly, but have not resisted disease better than other kinds that Payne [his gardener] has grown.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 164: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13617

From William Trelease   14 January 1882

Summary

Sends article on dimorphism in Oxalis violacea [Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 13–19].

Author:  William Trelease
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 178: 180
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13618

From J. F. Simpson   15 January 1882

Summary

Encloses an extract (from the Bayswater Chronicle [missing]), which is part of an ongoing disagreement in which JFS is involved.

Has read some references to CD’s hypothesis on music and offers a MS by himself which deals with the subject.

Author:  James Frederick Simpson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 177: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13619

From W. E. Darwin   16 January [1882]

Summary

Has ordered a tin of Somerset Mixture snuff for CD.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan [1882]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 106)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13619F
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