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To F. B. Zincke   7 November 1881

Summary

Would like to cite the case of the celt in a new printing of Earthworms. Asks for details.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Foster Barham Zincke
Date:  7 Nov 1881
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13468

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  • … see letter from F. B. Zincke, 8 December 1881 ). John Murray . See letter from R. F. …

From James Caird   3 January 1881

Summary

JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.

Author:  James Caird
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 161: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12974

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  • … my Gardener. M r . John Murray | Gardener | Cassencary. | Creetown— N.  B. I will instruct …

From Wilhelm Pfeffer   6 November 1881

Summary

It is impossible to trace the direct connections between stimuli and responses in plant movements. Disagrees with much of Julius von Wiesner [Die Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Disagrees with CD on induced movements and circumnutation.

Author:  Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 174: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13464

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  • B. Baillière. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. …

From Ernst Haeckel   9 February 1881

Summary

Sends birthday wishes.

Comments on Movement in plants.

Sends System der Ascrapeden [1880].

Describes work on Challenger Medusae.

Comments on success of CD’s theory.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Feb 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13043

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  • B. G. Teubner. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. …