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DCP-LETT-10476

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 56
Summary:

Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10487

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:
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DCP-LETT-10488

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:
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DCP-LETT-10488F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10489

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.

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DCP-LETT-10490

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].

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DCP-LETT-10491

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.]

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DCP-LETT-10492F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10499

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:
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DCP-LETT-10500

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:
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DCP-LETT-10501

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:
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DCP-LETT-10503

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:
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DCP-LETT-10509

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:
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DCP-LETT-10510

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

DCP-LETT-10511

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.

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DCP-LETT-10513

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

DCP-LETT-10515G

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

DCP-LETT-10515H

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:

Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515I

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

DCP-LETT-10515J

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:
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