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 |
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
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
Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
To W. H. Dallinger [after 10 January 1876]
Summary
CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.
The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Dallinger |
Date: | [after 10 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10354 |
From T. W. Clarke 12 January 1876
Author: | Thomas William Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10355 |
From Ernst Haeckel 13 January 1876
Summary
Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10356 |
To Francis Galton 13 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357 |
From S. L. Lovén [14 January 1876]
Summary
Has sent his paper on Echinoidea [see 10373] as a token of his veneration. He tried to address the confusion in knowledge about the different parts of the exoskeleton of the Echinodermata by tracing certain relations of homology not previously noticed. Much more work is required.
Author: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Utgående brev, vol. B1:5, nr 26, s 331-333) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357A |
To Ernst Haeckel 15 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks EH for Arabische Korallen [1876].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 15 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 36 [9889]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10358 |
From T. B. Blow 15 January 1876
Summary
Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.
Author: | Thomas Bates Blow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10359 |
From H. B. Smyth 15 January 1876
Summary
Reports an observation on his child’s behaviour;
claims to have captured two moths of different species in the act of copulating with each other.
Author: | Henry Beardmore Smyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10360 |
From A. S. von Mansfelde 17 January 1876
Author: | Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10361 |
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