From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876]
Summary
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10584 |
From J. A. Ransome-Marriott 1 September 1876
Summary
Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.
| Author: | John Arthur Ransome-Marriott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10586 |
From Gaston de Saporta 2 September 1876
Summary
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10587 |
From P. A. Hanaford 3 September 1876
Summary
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
| Author: | Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10588 |
From Hermann Müller 4 September 1876
Summary
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10589 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 11 September 1876
Summary
His research on Orchis maculata.
Discusses effect of disuse of anthers in Salvia officinalis.
Pleased CD can use his observations on Primula elatior.
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10595 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Summary
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
From Johann von Fischer [before 15 September 1876]
Summary
Describes behaviour of apes and monkeys in presenting coloured hindquarters.
| Author: | Johann von Fischer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 120, 120a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10598 |
From Johann von Fischer 15 September 1876
Summary
Mentions observations on apes and other mammals. Describes habits of apes and monkeys in presenting hindquarters. Thinks species that present always have colourful hindquarters. Discusses possible exceptions to rule.
| Author: | Johann von Fischer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 119, 119a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10600 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
From Thomas Seare 18 September 1876
Summary
Describes example of instinctive behaviour in new-born leveret.
Cites experiment in which rabbit breathed vapour of nitrite of amyl.
Suggests that change in terrestrial atmosphere is responsible for evolution from scales to fur or feathers.
| Author: | Thomas Seare |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10607 |
From W. H. Flower 27 September 1876
Summary
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10620 |
From M. L. Baxter 28 September 1876
Summary
Sends J. H. Baxter, Statistics, medical and anthropological [2 vols. (1875)]; asks CD’s opinion on correlation of stature with certain types of diseases.
| Author: | Myron Leslie Baxter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 September [1876]
Summary
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622F |
From Japetus Steenstrup [after 11 September 1876]
Summary
Thanks CD for sending a photograph.
| Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 11 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9632G |
| letter | (15) |
| Fischer, Johann von | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Baxter, M. L. | (1) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Fischer, Johann von | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Baxter, M. L. | (1) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
