From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May 1876
Source of text:
International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625)
Summary:
Sends his autograph.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143)
Summary:
Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.
Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Julius Wetterhan
Date:
25 May [1876]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (Ms.Ff.D.J.Wetterhan III.2)
Summary:
Thanks for letter of 21st.
When the curious Salvia arrives, CD will have it carefully planted. Interested in seeing its flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11)
Summary:
Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.
James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Foster Barham Zincke
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Natural Sciences collections at the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences)
Summary:
Thanks for a letter describing variation in chickens.
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 May [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493)
Summary:
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 14
Summary:
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 1
Summary:
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 12
Summary:
Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 53
Summary:
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16?-5?-1876?
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 16, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No Summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 May 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 14, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Bolander
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
Bolander correspondence, University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley, California
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
9 May 1876
Source of text:
K76/4747, unit 877, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Alexander Paterson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 May 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society3
- Artis Library1
- Cambridge University Library37
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek1
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität1
- Geological Society of London1
- Institut de France, Bibliothèque2
- International Autograph Auctions Ltd (dealers)1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- National Library of Scotland1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond6
- State Library of South Australia1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester1
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections1
- Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg1
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent1
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