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 |
From Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515H |
To G. J. Romanes [15 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [15 June 1876 or later] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520 |
To William Bowman 1 June [1876]
Summary
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10521 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
To Mary Treat 1 June 1876
Summary
Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | Amy Nagashima (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10523 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
To H. W. Weir [before 2 June 1876?]
Summary
‘Your mother ought indeed to feel proud that she had two sons such true naturalists as you and your brother [John Jenner Weir].’
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Harrison William Weir |
Date: | [before 2 June 1876?] |
Classmark: | Kent and Sussex Courier, 25 April 1884, p. 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524F |
To Francis Darwin [1 June 1876]
Summary
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10525 |
To Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526 |
From Francis Darwin [2 June 1876]
Summary
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10526F |
To Georg von Giźycki 2 June [1876]
Summary
Thanks for essay [Philosophische Consequenzen der Lamarck–Darwin’schen Entwicklungstheorie (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg von Giźycki |
Date: | 2 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10527 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 June [1876]
Summary
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10528 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 June [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
To G. H. Darwin [4 June 1876]
Summary
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10530 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 June 1876
Summary
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 June 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10531 |
To John Tyndall 5 June [1876]
Summary
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 5 June [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10532 |
From J. H. Kidder 5 June 1876
Summary
Sends his papers ["Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island", U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, nos. 2, 3 (1876)], which are inspired by Journal of researches.
Author: | Jerome Henry Kidder |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533 |
To Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533A |
From Edward Frankland [before 6 June 1876]
Summary
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Author: | Edward Frankland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 June 1876] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10533F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Forel, Auguste | (1) |
Frankland, Edward | (1) |
Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kidder, J. H. | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Schreiber, Bruno | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Frankland, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |