From:
William Jackson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24–8?] May [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 42
Summary:
CD’s servant submits estimate for work to be done on pantry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
CD’s copy of Volcanic islands (CUL, CCA 24.14); tipped in at back
Summary:
Informs CD which woodblocks of illustrations to the Geology of "Beagle" are in their possession and which are missing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 24
Summary:
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 52
Summary:
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 30
Summary:
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Laxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 159–63
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query as to the duration of crossed varieties of peas. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 305.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 23
Summary:
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 287–8
Summary:
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 38
Summary:
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moritz Schiff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 86: B8–9
Summary:
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 68
Summary:
Sends Die Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876]. Comments on CD’s theory of Pangenesis. Explains his own theory of Perigenesis.
Returns Webb and Berthelot, Îles Canaries; Géographie botanique [1840].
Describes work on 3d ed. of Anthropogenie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murphy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 323
Summary:
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 179
Summary:
Sends her article on Utricularia ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7].
Proposes to write on Sarracenia ["Carnivorous plants of Florida", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 53 (1876): 546–8, 710–14].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ebenezer Norman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 156–8
Summary:
Sends his copies of CD’s MS of Cross and self-fertilisation and calls attention to errors in addition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 162: 155
Summary:
Has become Professor of Botany at Genoa.
Offers to send his paper on the necessity of out-crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Grenier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 226
Summary:
Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.
Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Foster Barham Zincke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 [May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 184: 10
Summary:
On communication noises used by domestic poultry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 25
Summary:
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 58
Summary:
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 37–8
Summary:
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project