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To G. J. Romanes   2 September 1881

Summary

Unable to contribute an essay to a symposium on the subject of vivisection. Objects to use of term "symposium".

Mentions articles of Hermann Müller.

Death of his brother Erasmus [26 Aug 1881].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  2 Sept 1881
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.597)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13312

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  • … 22 April 1881, p. 11 (see letter to Frithiof Holmgren, [14] April 1881 , and letter to The …

From J. D. Hooker   4 August 1881

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Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Aug 1881
Classmark:  DAR 104: 154–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13272

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  • … the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the …

From H. N. Moseley   9 October 1881

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Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Oct 1881
Classmark:  DAR 171: 261
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13384

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  • … but was evidently the issue for 11 June 1881 ( ibid. , 14 (1881): 225–32). This issue …

From Fritz Müller   9 January 1881

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Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.

Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.

Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.

Author:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 99: 217–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12996

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  • … Read 14 February 1868. ] Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 15: 11–13. Endlicher, …

From Archibald Geikie   14 November 1881

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Thanks CD for offer of assistance in exploration of Eskdale beds. Describes finds of scorpions and unusual amphibians.

Author:  Archibald Geikie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 165: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13484

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  • … of Scotland | Edinburgh 14 th Nov r . 1881 My dear Sir Your letter of 11 th .  has just …

To G. J. Romanes   18 April 1881

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Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.

Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  18 Apr 1881
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.588)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13124

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  • … Romanes, 11 February 1881 and n. 1). CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren, [14] April 1881 , …

To G. J. Romanes   25 April 1881

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Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  25 Apr 1881
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13138

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  • 11, Appendix IX). For CD’s letters on vivisection to The Times , see the letter to Frithiof Holmgren, [14] …

From Werner von Voigts-Rhetz   [after 18 April 1881]

Summary

On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.

Author:  Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 18 Apr 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 180: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13127

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  • 11; for more on Hoggan’s concerns about vivisection, see Holmes and Friese 2020 , pp. 14– …

From W. E. Darwin   6 January 1881

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Passes on legal advice.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1881
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12980F

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  • … Darwin (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from E. A. Darwin, 11 October [1866] ). Leonard …

From Francis Darwin   19 [May 1881]

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Is sorry to have involved himself in a priority dispute between Wortmann and Elfving. Intends to publish on circumnutation; will CD send him his notes? Apologises for taking CD’s protractor, will send it back. Has met Oscar Schmidt.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [May 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13166F

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  • 14 May 1881 . Kneipe : pub, bar (German). Bernard Darwin had been upset by a report of the sinking of a ship (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 and 17 May 1881 and n. 11). …

From W. E. Darwin   [16 January 1881]

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Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [16 Jan 1881]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13023F

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  • 14 January [1881] and n. 5. CD was trying to determine whether worms had played a role in the formation of horizontal ledges on steep grassy slopes. Sara Darwin . CD had asked Stephen for advice about how to reply to Samuel Butler (see letter to Leslie Stephen, 11

To Frithiof Holmgren   [14] April 1881

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CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frithiof Holmgren
Date:  [14] Apr 1881
Classmark:  Uppsala University Library (Frithiof Holmgren Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13115

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  • 11 April 1875] . Louis Pasteur had discovered a vaccine for chicken cholera after experimentally infecting chickens with the disease; he published his results in December 1880 ( Pasteur 1880 ). In 1859, Rudolf Virchow had discovered the adult form of the nematode worm Trichina spiralis (a synonym of Trichinella spiralis ) in experiments with dogs ( Virchow 1859 ). The worm is responsible for the disease trichinosis in humans. In the event, CD's letter, excluding the section marked ‘Private’, and dated 14

To Francis Darwin   [16 June 1881]

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Describes seeds sent by George Payne [see 13205]. Is surprised that they bury themselves.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [16 June 1881]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 98v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13206

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  • 14 June 1881 and n. 1. Payne had sent seeds of Anemone pulsatilla (pasque flower). CD’s reply to Payne has not been found. According to Emma Darwin ’s diary (DAR 242), George arrived at the Darwin holiday home at Patterdale in the Lake District on 15 June 1881. George’s paper, ‘On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains’, was received at the Royal Society of London on 11