To ? 21 December 1876
Summary
Sends his signature
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728F |
To Eduard Strasburger 9 December [1876]
Summary
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger |
Date: | 9 Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10291F |
To Thomas Brittain 1 December 1876
Summary
Thanks TB for calling his attention to the case of the Apocynum; is unable to understand the trap-like arrangement [of the flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Brittain |
Date: | 1 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Manchester City News, 24 June 1882 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10695 |
To Asa Gray 4 December 1876
Summary
Plans to republish his paper on dimorphism with additions [Forms of flowers]. Is convinced it is necessary to compare pollen-grains and the state of the stigma to recognise dimorphic plants. Requests specific plants to test for dimorphism and would welcome examples from any family in which he has not encountered dimorphic species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10697 |
To Gerard Krefft 6 December 1876
Summary
Sorry to hear of JLGK’s troubles. Cannot organise a subscription but sends £5.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10700 |
To George Bentham 8 December 1876
Summary
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706 |
To G. S. Ffinden 9 December 1876
Summary
Sends £9 for Down Coal and Clothing Club, consisting of £5 for self, £1 for his son George, and £3 for his son Francis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 9 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (May 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706A |
To Fritz Müller 11 December 1876
Summary
FM’s new position in Rio.
CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.
Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10709 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 427–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10710 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
To Samuel Smiles 15 December 1876
Summary
Thanks SS for present of Life of a Scotch naturalist [1876]. Has read every one of his biographies with "extreme pleasure".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Smiles |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (SMILES/DARWIN, formerly MS 97–1947) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10720 |
To Samuel Smiles 16 December 1876
Summary
Has written via John Murray to thank for SS’s biography of Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876).
Is happy to sign a memorial concerning a Civil List pension for Thomas Edward.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Smiles |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10720F |
To J. D. Hooker 15 December 1876
Summary
JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 429 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721 |
To John Scott 15 December 1876
Summary
CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721F |
To Asa Gray 20 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for information about Hottonia.
Has found dimorphism in Forsythia.
Considers AG’s arguments on different terms for dimorphism, but cannot change to using the proposed new term [see 10699].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (116) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728 |
To J. V. Carus 20 December 1876
Summary
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730 |
To Walter White [after 31 December] 1876
Summary
Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter White |
Date: | [after 31 Dec] 1876 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730F |
To Karl von Scherzer 24 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for volume on craniology
and for suggestion to Austrian Government that CD receive volumes on Novara voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 24 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10733 |
To Ernst Haeckel 31 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for EH’s Anthropogenie, 3d ed.
Sends Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 31 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 42 [9895]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10739 |
letter | (22) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Smiles, Samuel | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Smiles, Samuel | (2) |