From Francis Galton 1 December 1876
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10694 |
From Albert Gaudry 2 December 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.
AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10696 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1876
Summary
Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.
AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".
Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10699 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
From Hermann Müller 6 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10702 |
From A. W. Bennett 7 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10703 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 December 1876
Summary
He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.
Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].
Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A85, DAR 104: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10705 |
From Robert Shaw 10 December [1876]
Summary
Adds a point to his previous letter regarding the buoyancy of birds and their soaring capacity.
Author: | Robert James (Robert) Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10707 |
From George Bentham 10 December 1876
Summary
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10708 |
From F. M. Balfour 11 December 1876
Summary
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10711 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
From F. M. Balfour [14 December 1876]
Summary
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10713 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
From A. R. Wallace 13 December 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10717 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
From William Renton 14 December 1876
Summary
Corrects Descent [1: 294] on inheritance of tortoise-shell colour in cats. It does not violate rule that characters appearing late in one sex are transmitted exclusively to the same sex.
Author: | William Renton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10719 |
From Julius von Haast 16 December 1876
Summary
Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.
Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10722 |
From Robert Shaw 16 December 1876
Summary
Discusses further his theory relating to the soaring capacity of birds.
Mentions hybrids produced by various crossings of game-birds.
Author: | Robert James (Robert) Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10723 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 16 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Discusses geographical implications of inbreeding. Can the length of time an insular flora has been isolated be estimated by its weakness due to inbreeding?
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10724 |
From Peter Henderson 16 December 1876
Summary
His long experience with propagation of Cytisus and other "sports".
Author: | Peter Henderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10725 |
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Balfour, F. M. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Balfour, F. M. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |