To Hermann Müller 7 August 1876
Summary
Comments on Fritz Müller’s article on Hedychium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 437 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10572 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1875, pp. 190–1; 13 January 1876, pp. 210–12; 10 February 1876, pp. 289–92; 22 June 1876, …
- … November 1874, pp. 32–3; 10 December 1874, pp. 110–12; 31 December 1874, pp. 169–71; 20 …
- … 10 July 1873, pp. 205–6; 25 September 1873, pp. 433–5; 20 November 1873, pp. 44–6; 1 January 1874, pp. 164–6; 18 June 1874, pp. 129–30; 12 …
From Hermann Müller 6 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10702 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1875, pp. 190–1; 13 January 1876, pp. 210–12; 10 February 1876, pp. 289–92; 22 June 1876, …
- … November 1874, pp. 32–3; 10 December 1874, pp. 110–12; 31 December 1874, pp. 169–71; 20 …
- … 10 July 1873, pp. 205–6; 25 September 1873, pp. 433–5; 20 November 1873, pp. 44–6; 1 January 1874, pp. 164–6; 18 June 1874, pp. 129–30; 12 …
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 Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
To George Bentham 8 December 1876
Summary
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706 |
From C. F. Martins 5 July 1876
Summary
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
| Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10557 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 29 January 1876?]
Summary
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Jan 1876?] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366F |
From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
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 George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
| Author: | George Cross |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 271 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651 |
To James Torbitt 14 April 1876
Summary
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter, 22 April 1876, p. 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10451 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 April 1876 . The letter from David Thomas Ansted to Torbitt has not been found, but extracts from it were published in the Belfast News-Letter , and are reproduced here. The ellipses are in the original. This letter was originally published without the enclosure in Correspondence vol. 24. Torbitt’s scheme for growing potatoes from seed and preserving the seeds of disease-resistant plants from each generation is explained in Torbitt 1876 . Cross and self fertilisation was published on 10 …
From J. V. Carus 16 April 1876
Summary
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10453 |
From A. S. von Mansfelde 17 January 1876
Summary
Proposes an unorthodox theory of generation that explains sex determination and atavism.
| Author: | Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10361 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 But if the ovum weakened by the above mentioned circumstance takes unto itself barely enough of this organized protoplasm, we will find the warehouse, the ovary, still preparing, yet no material being left over to be stored away, the natural stimulus for the erection of the house is wanting, and instead of progressing the work regresses only a trace of the ovary is left. And we have a male Embryo . 11 The quicker therefore the contact of the ovum with the Spermatic fluid, the Stronger is the ovum and in consequence the greater is the amount of protoplasm absorbed and the result always a female offspring. 12 …
| letter | (15) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Cross, George | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (2) |
| Müller, Hermann | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
