To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1876]
Summary
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 413–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10543 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1876
Summary
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10540 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 June [1876]
Summary
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 408–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10542 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Summary
Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To Fritz Müller 11 December 1876
Summary
FM’s new position in Rio.
CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.
Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10709 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 June 1876
Summary
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10531 |
To James Geikie 26 October 1876
Summary
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 330 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10655 |
From J. W. Judd 15 November 1876
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Coral reefs [1874]
and Volcanic islands [1876].
His travels and studies confirm CD’s explanation of the banded structure of lavas.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10674 |
To A. B. Buckley 11 February [1876]
Summary
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10387 |
To J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.
Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.
Reports on work in progress.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10422 |
From A. B. Buckley 12 February 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.
| Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 365 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10389 |
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| Buckley, A. B. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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