From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 97
Summary:
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
6 June [1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B124
Summary:
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
On burnt soils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sackville Arthur Cecil
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco (dealers) (7–8 July 2020, lot 751)
Summary:
Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.
Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794)
Summary:
Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Raab Collection (dealer) (November 2014)
Summary:
Obliged for the new edition of The Andes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 57–8
Summary:
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 55
Summary:
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 156
Summary:
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin ( The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Summary:
Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bruno Schreiber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 63
Summary:
Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bruno Schreiber
Date:
[after 24 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 63v
Summary:
Doubts Christian Radenhausen’s cosmological views are based on fact.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Bowman, William1
- Cecil, S. A.1
- Clark, Andrew1
- Darwin, C. R.40
- Darwin, Francis6
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Davis, Mary1
- Forel, Auguste2
- Frankland, Edward3
- Gilbert, J. H.2
- Giźycki, Georg von1
- Gray, Asa2
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Kidder, J. H.1
- La Touche, Reverend James Digues de1
- Orton, James1
- Romanes, G. J.4
- Schreiber, Bruno2
- The Times1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Treat, Mary1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified2
- Wallace, A. R.4
- Weir, H. W.1
- Weismann, August1
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