From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
Author: | Nemo |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
From W. T. Thiselton Dyer [1876]
Summary
Cancelled: part of 11847
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10340 |
From J. H. Gilbert 6 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10346F |
From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 8 January 1876]
Summary
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 144–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10349 |
From Charles O’Shaughnessy 10 January 1876
Summary
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Author: | Charles O’Shaughnessy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10351 |
From W. H. Dallinger 10 January 1876
Summary
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
Author: | William Henry Dallinger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10352 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 10 January 1876
Summary
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10353 |
From T. W. Clarke 12 January 1876
Summary
Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.
Author: | Thomas William Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10355 |
From Ernst Haeckel 13 January 1876
Summary
Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10356 |
From S. L. Lovén [14 January 1876]
Summary
Has sent his paper on Echinoidea [see 10373] as a token of his veneration. He tried to address the confusion in knowledge about the different parts of the exoskeleton of the Echinodermata by tracing certain relations of homology not previously noticed. Much more work is required.
Author: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Jan 1876] |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Utgående brev, vol. B1:5, nr 26, s 331-333) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357A |
From T. B. Blow 15 January 1876
Summary
Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.
Author: | Thomas Bates Blow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10359 |
From H. B. Smyth 15 January 1876
Summary
Reports an observation on his child’s behaviour;
claims to have captured two moths of different species in the act of copulating with each other.
Author: | Henry Beardmore Smyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10360 |
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 |
From James Torbitt 24 January 1876
Summary
Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10365 |
From M. T. Masters 24 January 1876
Summary
He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366 |
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 M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Summary
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10367 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1876
Summary
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10371 |
From Ernst Haeckel 31 January and 1 February 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.
Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan and 1 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10375 |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Blow, T. B. | (1) |
Clarke, T. W. | (1) |
Dallinger, W. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Blow, T. B. | (1) |
Clarke, T. W. | (1) |