Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Showing 1–20 of 462 items
The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
Thanks for PPCH’s ["Entwicklungsgeschichte der Entomostraken, pt 1: Embryologie von Balanus", Niederl. Arch. Zool. 3 (1876–7): 47–82].
Comments on Weismann’s remarks on the possibility of sexual selection in the genus Daphnia.
A. R. Wallace has published paper giving up sexual selection [Review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter.] in Academy, 10 and 17 June 1876, pp. 587–8.]
Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.
Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].
Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.
Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.
Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.
Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.
Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.
Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.
Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.
CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.
The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.