To J. D. Hooker 21 June [1876]
Summary
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 408–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10542 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 6 June 1876
Summary
References to figures of Coryanthes.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10534 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876]
Summary
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10584 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12). Slade was convicted under the Vagrancy Act and sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour ( The Times , 1 November 1876, p. 9); however, he appealed against the judgement, and left Britain before another trial was held. See Doyle 1926 , 1: 289–97. Slade’s reply to Lankester’s letter appeared in The Times , 21 …
From Ernst Haeckel 31 January and 1 February 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.
Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan and 1 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10375 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 21 January [1876] . CD had praised Haeckel’s Arabische Korallen (Arabian corals; Haeckel 1876b ), a profusely illustrated book based on popular lectures with scientific explanations. Fig. 2 in Haeckel 1876b , p. 4, is Crambactis arabica (a synonym of Entacmaea quadricolor , the bulb-tentacle sea anemone); fig. 11, p. 12, …
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1876
Summary
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10540 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 February 1876 , MC/10/351). George Macleay lived at Pendell Court, Bletchingley, Surrey ( ODNB s.v. Macleay, Alexander). Membership of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club was limited to 100 ( Fletcher 1946 , p. 8). Hooker may refer to George William Wigner , a prominent analytic chemist. Hooker had been working on the digestive properties of Nepenthes (the tropical pitcher-plant) on CD’ s behalf since 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21, …
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| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
