From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
From Robert Shaw 10 December [1876]
Summary
Adds a point to his previous letter regarding the buoyancy of birds and their soaring capacity.
Author: | Robert James (Robert) Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10707 |
From Francis Galton 1 December 1876
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10694 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
From William Renton 14 December 1876
Summary
Corrects Descent [1: 294] on inheritance of tortoise-shell colour in cats. It does not violate rule that characters appearing late in one sex are transmitted exclusively to the same sex.
Author: | William Renton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10719 |
From Hermann Müller 28 December 1876
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10736 |
From Allen Thomson 31 December 1876
Summary
Is happy to sign F. M. Balfour’s application for admission to the Royal Society.
Remembers CD from Edinburgh days.
Author: | Allen Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10740 |
From Albert Gaudry 2 December 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.
AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10696 |
From Hermann Müller 6 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10702 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 December 1876
Summary
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B78a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10727 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
From Peter Henderson 16 December 1876
Author: | Peter Henderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10725 |
From Robert Caspary 17 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Francis Darwin’s observation of nectaries in Pteris is most curious.
Doubts cross-fertilisation in the rare cases of two flowers on the same stalk in Victoria and Euryale.
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10726 |
From E. M. Heckel 27 December 1876
Summary
Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]
Author: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10735 |
From George Rolleston 29 December 1876
Summary
Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.
Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10737 |
From F. M. Balfour 11 December 1876
Summary
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10711 |
From George Bentham 10 December 1876
Summary
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10708 |
From Robert Shaw 16 December 1876
Summary
Discusses further his theory relating to the soaring capacity of birds.
Mentions hybrids produced by various crossings of game-birds.
Author: | Robert James (Robert) Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10723 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From F. M. Balfour [14 December 1876]
Summary
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10713 |
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