To Lawson Tait 25 March [1876]
Summary
RLT’s two articles in Spectator [4 Mar and 25 Mar 1876] greatly honour CD.
Tait has made a good point about "Survival of the Fittest".
Dr Rudinger’s extensive inquiries show that all eminent German surgeons are unanimous about non-growth of extra digit after amputation.
J. Kollmann has written regretting CD has given up atavism and extra digits [in 2d ed. of Variation]; gives new evidence of a rudimentary sixth digit in batrachians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 25 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10428 |
From Lawson Tait 26 March [1876]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10429 |
From Naphtali Lewy [26 March – 24 April 1876]
Summary
NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.
Author: | Naphtali Lewy (Halevi) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10430 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
From Robert Bell 28 March 1876
Summary
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Author: | Robert Bell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10432 |
To Axel Blytt 28 March 1876
Summary
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10433 |
To Lawson Tait 28 March 1876
Summary
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10434 |
From F. J. Cohn 28 March 1876
Summary
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10435 |
To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876]
Summary
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 31 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | Stuart Opotowsky (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10436 |
From James Torbitt 1 April 1876
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10437 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 April 1876
Summary
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10438 |
To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 4 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10440 |
From James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10441 |
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
From James Torbitt 7 April 1876
Summary
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10443 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
Summary
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10446 |
To Henry Bradshaw 12 April [1876]
Summary
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bradshaw |
Date: | 12 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10447 |
From James Torbitt 12 April 1876
Summary
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10448 |
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Darwin, G. H. | (8) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
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