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:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 144
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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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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.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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.
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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:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 417–18
Summary:
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 143
Summary:
Reports the death of Francis’ wife, Amy.
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 292
Summary:
His research on Orchis maculata.
Discusses effect of disuse of anthers in Salvia officinalis.
Pleased CD can use his observations on Primula elatior.
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