To Nature 6 May [1876]
Summary
Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 6 May [1876] |
Classmark: | Nature, 11 May 1876, p. 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10498 |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 May 1876 |
Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
To P. P. C. Hoek [after May 1876]
Summary
Thanks for PPCH’s ["Entwicklungsgeschichte der Entomostraken, pt 1: Embryologie von Balanus", Niederl. Arch. Zool. 3 (1876–7): 47–82].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Date: | [after May 1876] |
Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10334 |
From William Jackson [24–8?] May [1876?]
Summary
CD’s servant submits estimate for work to be done on pantry.
Author: | William Jackson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24–8?] May [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10487 |
From Smith, Elder & Co. 1 May 1876
Summary
Informs CD which woodblocks of illustrations to the Geology of "Beagle" are in their possession and which are missing.
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | CD’s copy of Volcanic islands (CUL, CCA 24.14); tipped in at back |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488 |
From Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10488F |
From G. H. Darwin 1 May 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489 |
To Francis Darwin [1 May 1876]
Summary
Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.
Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.
Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]
and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10489A |
From Hubert Airy 2 May 1876
Summary
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10490 |
From Thomas Laxton 2 May 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s query as to the duration of crossed varieties of peas. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 305.]
Author: | Thomas Laxton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 159–63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10491 |
To C. F. Claus 2 May 1876
Summary
Thanks CC for dedication [of his Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems (1876)]. Congratulates CC on completion of work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | Wiener Neue Freie Presse, 22 April 1882, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492 |
From Francis Darwin 2 May 1876
Summary
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10492F |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
To A. W. von Hofmann 3 May 1876
Summary
Thanks AWvH for his work on Justus Liebig [The life-work of Liebig (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Wilhelm von Hofmann |
Date: | 3 May 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.491) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10494 |
To Edward Frankland 3 May 1876
Summary
His samples of earth have been sent for analysis. EF has saved CD and his son from wasted experimenting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 3 May 1876 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10495A |
From Hermann Brehmer 4 May 1876
Summary
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 287–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496 |
To the Geological Society of London 5 May 1876
Summary
Asking to borrow three wood blocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 5 May 1876 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/19/188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496F |
To Lawson Tait 5 May 1876
Summary
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 5 May 1876 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10497 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 6 May 1876
Summary
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10499 |
From Moritz Schiff 8 May 1876
Summary
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Author: | Moritz Schiff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10500 |
letter | (44) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Airy, Hubert | (1) |
Brehmer, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Daubrée, Auguste | (2) |
Claus, C. F. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Darwin, Francis | (8) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Daubrée, Auguste | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |