To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
To Eduard Strasburger 9 December [1876]
Summary
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
Date: | 9 Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10291F |
To Otto Zacharias [before 3 January 1876]
Summary
In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | [before 3 January 1876] |
Classmark: | Zacharias 1876, pp. 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330F |
From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
Author: | Nemo |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
To P. P. C. Hoek [after May 1876]
Summary
Thanks for PPCH’s ["Entwicklungsgeschichte der Entomostraken, pt 1: Embryologie von Balanus", Niederl. Arch. Zool. 3 (1876–7): 47–82].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Date: | [after May 1876] |
Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10334 |
To August Weismann [17 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Comments on Weismann’s remarks on the possibility of sexual selection in the genus Daphnia.
A. R. Wallace has published paper giving up sexual selection [Review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter.] in Academy, 10 and 17 June 1876, pp. 587–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | [17 June 1876 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 346 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10335 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 4 September 1876]
Summary
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10338 |
To ? [1876?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer [1876]
Summary
Cancelled: part of 11847
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10340 |
To William Robinson 4 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robinson |
Date: | 4 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346 |
From J. H. Gilbert 6 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346F |
From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10348 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
To William Robinson 10 January [1876?]
Summary
Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robinson |
Date: | 10 Jan [1876?] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10350 |
From Charles O’Shaughnessy 10 January 1876
Summary
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Author: | Charles O’Shaughnessy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10351 |
From W. H. Dallinger 10 January 1876
Summary
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
Author: | William Henry Dallinger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10352 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 10 January 1876
Summary
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
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Torbitt, James | (8) |
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