To G. H. Darwin [after 4 September 1876]
Summary
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10338 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876]
Summary
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10584 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 1 September 1876
Summary
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 1 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 45–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10585 |
From J. A. Ransome-Marriott 1 September 1876
Author: | John Arthur Ransome-Marriott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10586 |
From Gaston de Saporta 2 September 1876
Summary
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10587 |
From P. A. Hanaford 3 September 1876
Summary
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
Author: | Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10588 |
From Hermann Müller 4 September 1876
Summary
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10589 |
To G. S. Ffinden 5 September 1876
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 5 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 11 (EH 88206063) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10590 |
To Gaston de Saporta 10 September 1876
Summary
Hopes GdeS will publish on subjects discussed in his letter [10587]. CD had noted similar persistence of variation in fossil shells.
Calls his attention to Nägeli’s work on Hieracium.
Expresses skepticism about O. Heer’s view that dicotyledonous plants developed suddenly. Believes they must have developed slowly in some part of the globe completely isolated from other regions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 10 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10591 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1876]
Summary
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 417–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10592 |
To W. E. Darwin 11 September [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10593 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 11 September 1876
Summary
Thanks JS for three essays. Has read with great interest the essay on the basking shark ["Sur les appareils tamiseurs ou fanons branchiaux du Pélerin", Kjo|benhaven Oversigt (1873): 47–66]. The explanation that the comb-like structures are of the nature of teeth is a "most wonderful case".
Sends his photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 11 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to); Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10594 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 11 September 1876
Summary
His research on Orchis maculata.
Discusses effect of disuse of anthers in Salvia officinalis.
Pleased CD can use his observations on Primula elatior.
Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10595 |
To Leonard Darwin 11 September [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10596 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
From Johann von Fischer [before 15 September 1876]
Author: | Johann von Fischer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 120, 120a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10598 |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
From Johann von Fischer 15 September 1876
Summary
Mentions observations on apes and other mammals. Describes habits of apes and monkeys in presenting hindquarters. Thinks species that present always have colourful hindquarters. Discusses possible exceptions to rule.
Author: | Johann von Fischer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 119, 119a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10600 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses death of his daughter-in-law
and possible visit by EH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 40 [9893]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10601 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 September 1876
Summary
Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.
Plans to visit Southampton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 47–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10602 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Fischer, Johann von | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Baxter, M. L. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Fischer, Johann von | (2) |
Flower, W. H. | (2) |
Hanaford, P. A. C. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Marshall, W. C. | (2) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (2) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (2) |
Baxter, M. L. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Duncan, P. M. | (1) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Norman, G. W. | (1) |
Ransome-Marriott, J. A. | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Schmid, Rudolf | (1) |
Seare, Thomas | (1) |
Van der Weyde, John | (1) |