From F. M. Balfour [14 December 1876]
Summary
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10713 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
From William Renton 14 December 1876
Summary
Corrects Descent [1: 294] on inheritance of tortoise-shell colour in cats. It does not violate rule that characters appearing late in one sex are transmitted exclusively to the same sex.
Author: | William Renton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10719 |
To Samuel Smiles 15 December 1876
Summary
Thanks SS for present of Life of a Scotch naturalist [1876]. Has read every one of his biographies with "extreme pleasure".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Smiles |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (SMILES/DARWIN, formerly MS 97–1947) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10720 |
To Samuel Smiles 16 December 1876
Summary
Has written via John Murray to thank for SS’s biography of Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876).
Is happy to sign a memorial concerning a Civil List pension for Thomas Edward.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Smiles |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10720F |
To J. D. Hooker 15 December 1876
Summary
JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 429 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721 |
To John Scott 15 December 1876
Summary
CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721F |
From Julius von Haast 16 December 1876
Summary
Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.
Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10722 |
From Robert Shaw 16 December 1876
Summary
Discusses further his theory relating to the soaring capacity of birds.
Mentions hybrids produced by various crossings of game-birds.
Author: | Robert James (Robert) Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10723 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Discusses geographical implications of inbreeding. Can the length of time an insular flora has been isolated be estimated by its weakness due to inbreeding?
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10724 |
From Peter Henderson 16 December 1876
Summary
His long experience with propagation of Cytisus and other "sports".
Author: | Peter Henderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10725 |
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 J. D. Hooker 18 December 1876
Summary
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B78a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10727 |
To Asa Gray 20 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for information about Hottonia.
Has found dimorphism in Forsythia.
Considers AG’s arguments on different terms for dimorphism, but cannot change to using the proposed new term [see 10699].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728 |
From G. E. S. Boulger 20 December [1876]
Summary
Is engaged in translating Hermann Müller’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Has observed Sphinx moths on Petunia.
Author: | George Edward Simonds Boulger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10729 |
To J. V. Carus 20 December 1876
Summary
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730 |
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