To Ernst Haeckel 14 May 1876
Summary
Book [Webb and Berthelot] has reached CD.
Sorry EH dissents from Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 14 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 38 [9891]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10506 |
To W. D. Fox 26 May [1876]
Summary
Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.
James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 26 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 June 1876
Summary
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10541 |
To F. B. Zincke 26 May [1876]
Summary
Thanks for a letter describing variation in chickens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Foster Barham Zincke |
| Date: | 26 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Natural Sciences collections at the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515F |
From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
To G. J. Romanes 29 May [1876]
Summary
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 29 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10516 |
To H. E. Wedgwood [28 May 1876]
Summary
Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.
Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [28 May 1876] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10514 |
To William Bowman 1 June [1876]
Summary
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10521 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, H. E. | (1) |
| Zincke, F. B. | (1) |
