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 |
From Lawson Tait 4 August [1876]
Summary
Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.
RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10570 |
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 |
From Lawson Tait 8 August 1876
Summary
Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10574 |
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 |
From Milan Radovanović 18 August 1876
Summary
Sends Serbian edition of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte translated by his late brother.
Serbian edition of Origin, translated by MMR, not yet published because of war with Turks.
Author: | Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10580 |
From George Rolleston 18 August 1876
Summary
Sends three of his anthropological papers.
CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581 |
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 |
letter | (18) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Tait, Lawson | (3) |
Radovanović, Milan | (2) |
Rolleston, George | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |