From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1881]
Summary
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141G |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 13 March 1881] and n. 4; letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 16 March 1881 (DAR …
- … and Horace Darwin left Down on 19 April for a visit to Abinger ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [16 April 1881] (DAR 210.3: 8)). Ida was …
- … not to visit again (see letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 31 January 1881 (DAR …
To C. E. Norton 30 April 1881
Summary
Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13140 |
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 |
To G. J. Romanes 16 April 1881
Summary
Discusses concept of intelligence in his Earthworms manuscript.
Remarks on GJR’s work on echinoderms.
Comments on Wilhelm Roux [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Discusses animal instincts, citing Fabre’s description of sand-wasps.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.587) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13118 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Addressee
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
