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DCP-LETT-10421

From:
Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 50
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].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10423

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 104
Summary:

A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10425

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 218
Summary:

Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10429

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 31
Summary:

Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10430

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 20
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10431

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 32
Summary:

Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10432

From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:

Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10435

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 201
Summary:

Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10437

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:

Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.

Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10438

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10439

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 178
Summary:

Encloses Pinguicula specimens.

Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10444

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10446

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:

Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10448

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:

JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.

Seeking financial backing for his research.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10453

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 69: A74–5
Summary:

Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10455

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 8
Summary:

F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10456

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:

Sends some potato plants and tubers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10458

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:

JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10458F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59)
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10460

From:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 29
Summary:

Glaciation in the British Isles.

S. B. J. Skertchley’s researches on Palaeolithic man in England [Nature 14 (1876): 448–9].

Contributor:
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