To John Lubbock 16 August [1876]
Summary
Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49644: 159) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10578 |
From Auguste Forel 23 June 1876
Summary
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
| Author: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10545 |
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 Auguste Forel 19 June 1876
Summary
Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel |
| Date: | 19 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10539 |
From J. F. McLennan 7 November 1876
Summary
L. H. Morgan has plagiarised his and Henry Maine’s works for years.
Encourages George Darwin to continue his work on consanguineous marriages.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10664 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 June 1876
Summary
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10538 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] ]Quarterly Review …
- … John Murray. 1871. EB : The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [ …
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Summary
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876
Summary
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10671 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Forel, Auguste | (1) |
| McLennan, J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Forel, Auguste | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Forel, Auguste | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
