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 |
To Walter White [after 31 December] 1876
Summary
Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter White |
Date: | [after 31 Dec] 1876 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730F |
From Asa Gray 22 December 1876
Summary
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10731 |
To Karl von Scherzer 24 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for volume on craniology
and for suggestion to Austrian Government that CD receive volumes on Novara voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 24 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10733 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From E. M. Heckel 27 December 1876
Summary
Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]
Author: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10735 |
From Hermann Müller 28 December 1876
Summary
No papers on heterostyly have appeared since 1873.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10736 |
From George Rolleston 29 December 1876
Summary
Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.
Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10737 |
From Ernst Haeckel 30 December 1876
Summary
Describes new journal, Kosmos, to be edited by Ernst Krause. Asks CD to lend his name to journal.
Has sent Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Will send his study [Biologische Studien, pt 2: Studien zur Gastraea-theorie (1877)] in January.
Thanks CD for hospitality at Down.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10738 |
To Ernst Haeckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for EH’s Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Sends Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 42 [9895]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739 |
To Édouard Heckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.
EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739F |
From Allen Thomson 31 December 1876
Summary
Is happy to sign F. M. Balfour’s application for admission to the Royal Society.
Remembers CD from Edinburgh days.
Author: | Allen Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10740 |
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1876
Summary
Acknowledges presentation copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Thanks for visit to Down.
Praise for CD’s theories.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10741 |
From T. H. Farrer 31 December 1876
Summary
Much pleased with CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Is struck by width and caution of his generalisations and by the application of experiment to processes of life hitherto merely observed.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10742 |
To Francis Darwin [c. December 1876]
Summary
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762 |
From George Henslow [c. 7 December 1876]
Summary
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 7 Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8204 |
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