From J. C. E. Kollmann 19 March 1876
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.
Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.
Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].
Author: | Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10421 |
From G. J. Romanes [c. 19 March 1876]
Summary
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 19 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10421F |
From J. V. Carus 21 March 1876
Summary
A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423 |
From H. C. Sorby 22 March 1876
Summary
Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.
Author: | Henry Clifton Sorby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10425 |
From Lawson Tait 26 March [1876]
Summary
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10429 |
From Naphtali Lewy [26 March – 24 April 1876]
Summary
NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.
Author: | Naphtali Lewy (Halevi) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10430 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Summary
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
From Robert Bell 28 March 1876
Summary
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Author: | Robert Bell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10432 |
From F. J. Cohn 28 March 1876
Summary
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10435 |
From James Torbitt 1 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10437 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 April 1876
Summary
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10438 |
From James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10441 |
From James Torbitt 7 April 1876
Summary
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10443 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
Summary
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10446 |
From James Torbitt 12 April 1876
Summary
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Author: | James Torbitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10448 |
From G. G. Stokes 14 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 92–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10452 |
From J. V. Carus 16 April 1876
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10453 |
From Hermann Brehmer 17 April 1876
Summary
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 285–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10454 |
From P. M. G. Egerton 17 April 1876
Summary
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Author: | Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10455 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |
Darwin, G. H. | (8) |
Torbitt, James | (8) |
Tait, Lawson | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (208) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Darwin, Francis | (10) |
Darwin, G. H. | (8) |
Torbitt, James | (8) |