To J. J. Weir 14 February [1876]
Summary
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 338 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10392 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
From Thomas Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 February 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
Author: | Thomas Moore |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10394 |
From Francis Galton 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B3–B11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10395 |
From Hermann Müller 16 February 1876
Summary
Observations on hive- and humble-bees. Perforating habits differ in different individuals of the same species.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10396 |
From Hermann Müller to Francis Darwin 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s view that many of the pointed appendages on the tip of the maxilla of Vanessa atalanta are organs of feeling or taste.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 159–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10397 |
From B. J. Edwards & Co. 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
Author: | B. J. Edwards & Co. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10398 |
To J. H. Gilbert 16 February 1876
Summary
Describes self- and cross-fertilisation experiments.
Asks JHG’s advice on setting up an experiment designed to test whether the cause of variation in cultivated plants lies in different substances absorbed from the soil when absorption is not interfered with by other plants in a state of nature. Can JHG suggest how he can get soil free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10399 |
To Fritz Müller [18 February 1876]
Summary
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [18 Feb 1876] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10400 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 18 February 1876
Summary
Encloses statement of sales of Origin, Expression, Descent, and Insectivorous plants to 1 Feb 1876.
Has charged against CD’s account half the cost of old plates from Judd for Variation. When will plates for new edition be sent?
Insectivorous plants not selling well because of general depression in business.
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10401 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
To J. N. Lockyer 18 February [1876]
Summary
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
Date: | 18 Feb [1876] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10403 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 February 1876
Summary
Murray wishes to settle payments for Descent [2d ed., 11th thousand]. Over 500 copies of the 1000 printed have been sold.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 482 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10404 |
From Lawson Tait 21 February 1876
Summary
RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.
Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10405 |
To Lawson Tait 22 February [1876]
Summary
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 22 Feb [1876] |
Classmark: | Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10406 |
From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1876
Summary
Sends cheque for Descent [2d ed., 1875 issue].
Has sent corrections to printer for Climbing plants
and Origin. Has ordered to print: 1250 copies of Origin,
500 of Climbing plants,
and 1000 of Naturalist’s voyage [Journal of researches].
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 483 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10407 |
From Arthur Nicols 24 February 1876
Summary
Is putting together a natural history book for intelligent children [The puzzle of life (1877)]; would like CD’s opinion on the project in general and on the completed first chapter in particular.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10408 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 24 February 1876]
Summary
Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 65/1v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10409 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To Henry Edwards 1 March [1876]
Summary
Comments on paper by HE [see 10328].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Edwards |
Date: | 1 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.486) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10411 |
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