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 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1881
Summary
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 |
From H. N. Moseley 9 October 1881
Summary
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 |
From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
Summary
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 |
From Archibald Geikie 14 November 1881
Summary
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 |
To G. J. Romanes 18 April 1881
Summary
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 |
To G. J. Romanes 25 April 1881
Summary
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 |
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 January 1881
Summary
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 |
From Francis Darwin 19 [May 1881]
Summary
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 |
From W. E. Darwin [16 January 1881]
Summary
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 |
To Frithiof Holmgren [14] April 1881
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
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Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Holmgren, Frithiof | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Geikie, Archibald | (1) |