From William Jackson [24–8?] May [1876?]
Author: | William Jackson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24–8?] May [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10487 |
From Smith, Elder & Co. 1 May 1876
Summary
Informs CD which woodblocks of illustrations to the Geology of "Beagle" are in their possession and which are missing.
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | CD’s copy of Volcanic islands (CUL, CCA 24.14); tipped in at back |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488 |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
From Hubert Airy 2 May 1876
Summary
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10490 |
From Thomas Laxton 2 May 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s query as to the duration of crossed varieties of peas. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 305.]
Author: | Thomas Laxton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 159–63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10491 |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
From Hermann Brehmer 4 May 1876
Summary
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 287–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 6 May 1876
Summary
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10499 |
From Moritz Schiff 8 May 1876
Summary
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Author: | Moritz Schiff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10500 |
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 James Murphy 10 May 1876
Summary
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
Author: | James Murphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10503 |
From Ebenezer Norman 18 May 1876
Summary
Sends his copies of CD’s MS of Cross and self-fertilisation and calls attention to errors in addition.
Author: | Ebenezer Norman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 156–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10509 |
From Federico Delpino 19 May 1876
Summary
Has become Professor of Botany at Genoa.
Offers to send his paper on the necessity of out-crossing.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510 |
From Louis Grenier 20 May 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.
Author: | Louis Grenier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10511 |
From F. B. Zincke 23 [May 1876]
Author: | Foster Barham Zincke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 [May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10513 |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
From Francis Darwin [28 May 1876]
Summary
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515J |
From Francis Darwin [31 May 1876]
Summary
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10517F |
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