To Nature 22 February [1881]
Summary
Summarises the "remarkable facts about the movements of plants" in Fritz Müller’s letter of January [12996]. CD comments that Müller’s observations support the conclusion that he and Francis Darwin arrived at – that leaves go to sleep to escape the full effects of radiation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 22 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 3 March 1881, p. 409 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13061 |
From ? [March 1881]
Summary
Notes on the thickness of mould on the slope of the inland side of Beachy Head.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Mar 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 65: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13070 |
To Nature 14 April [1881]
Summary
Summarises a letter from Fritz Müller [missing] giving details of leaf movement in Mucuna, Desmodium, and Bauhinia. CD is especially interested in the paraheliotropic movements, which appear to be as common as sleep movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 14 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 28 April 1881, pp. 603–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13117 |
To ? 17 June 1881
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 June 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13208 |
To Nature 13 July [1881]
Summary
Communicates two cases of inheritance reported by J. P. Bishop [in 13137]. The work of E. Brown-Séquard has demonstrated that effects of injuries can be inherited ["Hereditary transmission of an epileptiform affection accidentally produced", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 10 (1860): 297–8]. E. Dupuy has sent CD a still more remarkable case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 13 July [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 21 July 1881, p. 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13245 |
To ? 18 July 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13248 |
To ? 31 July [1881?]
Summary
Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 July [1881?] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13267 |
To ? 20 August 1881
Summary
Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13292 |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13294G |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13296A |
To ? 5 September 1881
Summary
Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13317A |
To Nature [before 15 September 1881]
Summary
Quotes from a Fritz Müller letter of 9 Aug supporting CD’s views that leaves position themselves at night so as to minimise heat loss by radiation. It is a new fact to CD that leaves take different positions at different seasons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 15 Sept 1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 15 September 1881, p. 459 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13338 |
To ? 5 October 1881
Summary
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 5 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | Rick Northwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13373F |
To Nature 7 November [1881]
Summary
Summarises letter of William Nation [13350]. The facts given strongly support the conclusion that there is some close connection between the parasitic habits of birds that lay their eggs in others’ nests and the fact of their laying eggs at "considerable intervals of time".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 7 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 17 November 1881, p. 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13471 |
To ? 23 November 1881
Summary
Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507 |
To G. J. Romanes 24 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 June [1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10813 |
From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385A |
To John Lubbock 12 November [1881]
Summary
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 12 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11743F |
To G. J. Romanes [17 December 1881]
Summary
Asks him to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [17 Dec 1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12382 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 January [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible investments.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392G |
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