To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To John Tyndall 4 February 1876
Summary
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10379 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [4 February 1876]
Summary
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10380 |
To Eduard Koch? 6 February 1876
Summary
Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Koch |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10383 |
To Società dei Naturalisti di Modena 8 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Società dei Naturalisti di Modena |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10383F |
To Fritz Müller [9 February 1876]
Summary
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10384 |
To H. T. Stainton 11 February [1876]
Summary
Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10385 |
To A. C. Thomson 11 February 1876
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Christie Thomson |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10386 |
To A. B. Buckley 11 February [1876]
Summary
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10387 |
To [Post Office Savings Bank] 11 February [1876]
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10388 |
To J. J. Weir 14 February [1876]
Summary
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10392 |
To J. H. Gilbert 16 February 1876
Summary
Describes self- and cross-fertilisation experiments.
Asks JHG’s advice on setting up an experiment designed to test whether the cause of variation in cultivated plants lies in different substances absorbed from the soil when absorption is not interfered with by other plants in a state of nature. Can JHG suggest how he can get soil free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10399 |
To Fritz Müller [18 February 1876]
Summary
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [18 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10400 |
To J. N. Lockyer 18 February [1876]
Summary
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10403 |
To Lawson Tait 22 February [1876]
Summary
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10406 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 24 February 1876]
Summary
Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 65/1v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10409 |
To J. B. Innes 7 February [1876]
Summary
Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10833 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 11 February 1876
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10840 |
| letter | (22) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Koch, Eduard | (1) |
| Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
| Ludlow, J. M. F. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Post Office Savings Bank | (1) |
| Società dei Naturalisti di Modena | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Thomson, A. C. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Koch, Eduard | (1) |
| Lockyer, Norman | (1) |
| Ludlow, J. M. F. | (1) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Post Office Savings Bank | (1) |
| Società dei Naturalisti di Modena | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Thomson, A. C. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
