To ? [1876?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
To Otto Zacharias [before 3 January 1876]
Summary
In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | [before 3 January 1876] |
Classmark: | Zacharias 1876, pp. 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330F |
To ? [1876]
Summary
Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10745 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 29 January 1876?]
Summary
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Jan 1876?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366F |
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 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 |
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 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 Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
Author: | Nemo |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
To James Torbitt 26 January 1876
Summary
Obliged for Belfast Journal.
Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10368 |
To Hubert Airy 27 January [1876?]
Summary
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 27 Jan [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10369 |
To S. L. Lovén 28 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for SL’s [Études sur les echinoïdées (1875)]. Nothing could be more difficult than the homologies of this group.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10373 |
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 |
From James Torbitt 24 January 1876
Summary
Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10365 |
From M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Summary
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10367 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 10 January 1876
Summary
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January [1876]
Summary
EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10363 |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Gilbert, J. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … r . Murray. At present I have only been able to glance at the Table of Contents, and turn over a few of the leaves, but have seen enough to surprise me at the amount of experimental observation involved, and to assure me that I shall make further acquaintance with the book with the greatest interest. I am, My Dear Sir, | Your’s sincerely | J. H. Gilbert. Charles Darwin Esq re & c . & …
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 |
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Blow, T. B. | (1) |
Clarke, T. W. | (1) |
Dallinger, W. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lovén, Sven | (1) |
Mansfelde, A. S. von | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nemo | (1) |
O’Shaughnessy, Charles | (1) |
Smyth, H. B. | (1) |
Spruce, Richard | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Robinson, William (b) | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (4) |
Dallinger, W. H. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |