From G. H. Darwin [after 28 March 1876]
Summary
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10242 |
From Lawson Tait 1 March 1876
Summary
Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10412 |
From J. H. Gilbert 4 March 1876
Summary
Discusses in detail how to prepare for experimental purposes a soil that lacks nutrients.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10414F |
From J. H. Gilbert 9 March 1876
Summary
Sends advice on preparing and washing soil in preparation for CD’s experiments.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10416G |
From J. G. Fenwick 17 March 1876
Author: | John George Fenwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10418 |
From J. V. Carus 19 March 1876
Summary
Insectivorous plants is out
and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.
He is now at work on the geological writings.
Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".
Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10419 |
From J. C. E. Kollmann 19 March 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.
Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.
Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].
Author: | Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10421 |
From G. J. Romanes [c. 19 March 1876]
Summary
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 19 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10421F |
From J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423 |
From H. C. Sorby 22 March 1876
Summary
Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.
Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10425 |
From Lawson Tait 26 March [1876]
Summary
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10429 |
From Naphtali Lewy [26 March – 24 April 1876]
Summary
NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.
Author: | Naphtali Lewy (Halevi) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10430 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Summary
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
From Robert Bell 28 March 1876
Summary
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Author: | Robert Bell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10432 |
From F. J. Cohn 28 March 1876
Summary
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10435 |
From Charles Layton 10 March 1876
Summary
Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].
Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 98v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10417 |
letter | (16) |
Tait, Lawson | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Gilbert, J. H. | (2) |
Bell, Robert (b) | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Tait, Lawson | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Gilbert, J. H. | (2) |
Bell, Robert (b) | (1) |