From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
To G. H. Darwin 8 January [1876]
Summary
Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.
| 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 |
To [Post Office Savings Bank] 11 February [1876]
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10388 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10478 |
From H. C. Sorby 22 March 1876
Summary
Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.
| Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10425 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 20 April [1876]
Summary
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10458F |
From G. H. Darwin [27? November 1876]
Summary
Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27? Nov 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10689 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 April [1876]
Summary
Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10480 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Summary
Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561 |
From P. A. Hanaford 3 September 1876
Summary
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
| Author: | Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10588 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 September [1876]
Summary
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622F |
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 J.-B. Liagre 18 July 1876
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of publications of the Académie royale de Belgique.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste Liagre |
| Date: | 18 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | Académie royale de Belgique (Bibliothèque et Archives) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10561F |
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 31 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks for Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876).
Will send a copy of Cross and self fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10659F |
To D. F. Nevill 6 April [1876–82]
Summary
Received Darlingtonia; cannot explain its fructification.
Declines invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1876-82] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9915 |
To Eduard Strasburger 9 December [1876]
Summary
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10291F |
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