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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 144
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[7 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 139
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[8 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
21 September 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[after 21 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
29 September 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.10
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[26 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 September [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.50
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[29 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.51
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, Rose
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
13 September [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1985
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, Mabel
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
9 September 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1993
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 66
Summary:
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].
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45
Summary:
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 Sept 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 45–6)
Summary:
Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
John Arthur Ransome-Marriott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 21
Summary:
Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 33
Summary:
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
Contributor:
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From:
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 92
Summary:
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 306
Summary:
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
5 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 11 (EH 88206063)
Summary:
Sends £25 subscription, though he is not a churchman.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
10 Sept 1876
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Hopes GdeS will publish on subjects discussed in his letter [10587]. CD had noted similar persistence of variation in fossil shells.
Calls his attention to Nägeli’s work on Hieracium.
Expresses skepticism about O. Heer’s view that dicotyledonous plants developed suddenly. Believes they must have developed slowly in some part of the globe completely isolated from other regions.
Contributor:
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- Baxter, M. L.1
- Bentham, George4
- Breitenbach, Wilhelm1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, C. R.47
- Darwin, Emma9
- Darwin, Francis6
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, Horace2
- Darwin, Leonard7
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Duncan, P. M.1
- Duthie, John Firminger2
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Fischer, Johann von2
- Flower, W. H.2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Hanaford, P. A. C.2
- Hooker, J. D.11
- Hooker, Joseph2
- John Murray2
- King, George1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- MacPherson, John1
- Marshall, W. C.2
- Mitten, William1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von11
- Müller, Hermann1
- Negri, Cristoforo1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Odgers, William1
- Ransome-Marriott, J. A.1
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Saporta, Gaston de2
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Schmid, Rudolf1
- Seare, Thomas1
- Steenstrup, Japetus2
- Taylor, Helen1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.3
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner5
- Van der Weyde, John1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, Mabel1
- Wedgwood, Rose1
- [Bentham, George]1
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