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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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
Summary
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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