To John Scott 1 July 1876
Summary
CD has read the two reports on culture of poppies with interest and has planted seeds.
Suggests an experiment for evidence on whether plants, thought merely varieties, are like species and fail to intercross, despite insect pollination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 July 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10555 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876
Summary
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10556 |
From C. F. Martins 5 July 1876
Summary
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10557 |
From Andrew Clark 8 July 1876
Summary
Directions for diet and exercise, with psychological counsel.
Author: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10558 |
To Edmund Gurney 8 July 1876
Summary
Read EG’s article ["Some disputed points in music", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 20 (1876): 106–30]. Diversity of musical taste in man indicates that it is acquired during individuals’ lives. The origin of the "sense of sublimity".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edmund Gurney |
Date: | 8 July 1876 |
Classmark: | LL 3: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10559 |
To C. F. Claus 9 July 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Date: | 9 July 1876 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (1 December 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10559F |
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 |
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 William Ogle 22 July [1876]
Summary
Would like to cite WO’s case of bees perforating white but not blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus) in his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 427–8]. Believes it is probably sterile if insects are excluded.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 22 July [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 16 (EH 88205914) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10563 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1876
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B126–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10564 |
From William Ogle 23 July 1876
Summary
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10565 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 26 July 1876
Summary
Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata
and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B50–4; DAR 160: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10566 |
From Casimir de Candolle 30 July 1876
Summary
Experimenting on climbing plants.
Has no further information on Dionaea.
Author: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10567 |
To August Müller Beeck 31 July [1876]
Summary
CD refuses to send AMB a copy of one of his works. "I did think your request unreasonable, as I have to give from 50 to 100 copies of all my books to those who aid me.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Müller Beeck |
Date: | 31 July [1876] |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (19 August 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10567A |
To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876]
Summary
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 July 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10747 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Candolle, Casimir de | (1) |
Clark, Andrew | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Claus, C. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Gurney, Edmund | (1) |
Liagre, J.-B. | (1) |
Müller Beeck, August | (1) |
Ogle, William | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Candolle, Casimir de | (1) |
Clark, Andrew | (1) |