To Ernst Haeckel 21 January [1876]
Summary
EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10363 |
To Karl von Scherzer 24 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].
Discusses possible meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 24 Jan [1876] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10364 |
From James Torbitt 24 January 1876
Summary
Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10365 |
From M. T. Masters 24 January 1876
Summary
He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366 |
From W. E. Darwin [before 29 January 1876?]
Summary
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Jan 1876?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366F |
From M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Summary
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10367 |
To James Torbitt 26 January 1876
Summary
Obliged for Belfast Journal.
Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10368 |
To Hubert Airy 27 January [1876?]
Summary
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 27 Jan [1876?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10369 |
To Asa Gray 28 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].
AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].
Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10370 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1876
Summary
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10371 |
To S. L. Lovén 28 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for SL’s [Études sur les echinoïdées (1875)]. Nothing could be more difficult than the homologies of this group.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10373 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 January 1876
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10374 |
From Ernst Haeckel 31 January and 1 February 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.
Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan and 1 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10375 |
To J. H. Gilbert [before 9 March 1876]
Summary
Thanks for advice concerning preparation of soil for experiments. Will order the salts. Asks about burning soil or washing it with acid.
Thanks for invitation. His son [Francis] would like to inspect JHG’s plots.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Date: | [before 9 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10376 |
From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
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 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10381 |
From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10382 |
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 |
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