To Lawson Tait 28 March 1876
Summary
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10434 |
To F. J. Cohn 31 March [1876]
Summary
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 31 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | Stuart Opotowsky (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10436 |
To James Torbitt 4 April 1876
Summary
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 4 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10440 |
To James Torbitt 6 April 1876
Summary
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 6 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10442 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
To Henry Bradshaw 12 April [1876]
Summary
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bradshaw |
Date: | 12 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10447 |
To G. J. Romanes 14 April 1876
Summary
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10449 |
To Robert Bell 14 April [1876]
Summary
Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].
Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.
Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Bell |
Date: | 14 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10450 |
To James Torbitt 14 April 1876
Summary
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter, 22 April 1876, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10451 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10457 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 20 April [1876]
Summary
J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 20 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10459 |
To G. G. Stokes 21 April [1876]
Summary
The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10462 |
To James Torbitt 21 April 1876
Summary
Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.
Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 21 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10463 |
To T. C. Eyton 22 April 1876
Summary
Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.
Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.
Returns extracts.
Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.
CD now working on plants;
doubts he will ever return to working on man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10465 |
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 22 April 1876
Summary
Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466F |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 22 April 1876
Summary
Discussing a reprint of South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 22 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10466G |
To J. V. Carus 24 April 1876
Summary
Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.
All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10468 |
To Lawson Tait 24 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10470 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1876]
Summary
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 407 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10471 |
To Federico Delpino 25 April 1876
Summary
Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10474 |
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