From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
From Mary Treat 3 April 1876
Summary
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10439 |
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 Ernst Haeckel 9 May 1876
Summary
Sends Die Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876]. Comments on CD’s theory of Pangenesis. Explains his own theory of Perigenesis.
Returns Webb and Berthelot, Îles Canaries; Géographie botanique [1840].
Describes work on 3d ed. of Anthropogenie.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10501 |
From Robert Caspary 17 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Francis Darwin’s observation of nectaries in Pteris is most curious.
Doubts cross-fertilisation in the rare cases of two flowers on the same stalk in Victoria and Euryale.
| Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10726 |
From Mary Treat 15 May 1876
Summary
Sends her article on Utricularia ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7].
Proposes to write on Sarracenia ["Carnivorous plants of Florida", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 53 (1876): 546–8, 710–14].
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10508 |
| letter | (6) |
| Davis, Mary | (2) |
| Treat, Mary | (2) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Davis, Mary | (2) |
| Treat, Mary | (2) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
