To Gaston de Saporta 12 August 1876
Summary
Thanks GdeS for his Recherches sur les végétaux fossiles [1876].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10568 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 August 1876
Summary
Requests orchid specimens for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10569 |
To Lawson Tait 6 August 1876
Summary
CD accepts membership in the Birmingham Natural History Society.
Thanks RLT for article. CD cannot quite agree that "under a theological point of view, the origin of evil is explained by survival".
Is glad RLT has not given up polydactylism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10571 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 8 August [1876]
Summary
Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10573 |
To Asa Gray 9 August 1876
Summary
AG’s Darwiniana [1876].
Cross and self-fertilisation has now gone to press.
Is preparing new edition of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (112) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10575 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 August 1876
Summary
Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.
CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 415–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10576 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 August 1876
Summary
Glad EH is coming to England.
Will be visiting eldest son in Southampton in September [but visit apparently delayed until 7 Oct, see "Journal"].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 39 [9892]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10577 |
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 |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 18 August [1876]
Summary
Thanks for RDF’s Australian orchids [1874]. It comes just as CD’s Orchids [2d ed.] is going to press.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10579 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 21 August [1876]
Summary
Asks for tougher paper to be used for maps in Coral reefs, 2d ed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10582 |
To Milan Radovanović 25 August [1876]
Summary
His thanks for the present of Haeckel’s work.
He will be much gratified to have MMR translate Origin if the state of his country permits. [See 10580.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović |
| Date: | 25 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI), Moscow (fund 1347, dossier 1, file 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10582A |
To George Rolleston 24 August [1876]
Summary
Thanks GR for his notes and essays [see 10581].
Similar appendages to those GR mentions [see 10581] appear on the necks of goats, but the idea of reversion to a common progenitor of goats and pigs "stumps" CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | George family (private collection) [but the images are from a facsimile DAR 185: 124] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10582F |
To Bibliographisches Institut 28 August 1876
Summary
Thanks for A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben [2d ed. (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bibliographisches Institut |
| Date: | 28 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10583 |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
