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DCP-LETT-10302

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 144
Summary:

Is delighted CD plans to call on him.

Wants to discuss botanical work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10307

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46
Summary:

Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].

Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10309

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A92–3
Summary:

Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10310

From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
CUL Manuscripts Department Add 7656: D71
Summary:

Notifies CD that information he [GGS] gave before on colours of peacock’s feathers was wrong [see 5891 et seq.] and refers CD to H. C. Sorby, who has worked on the subject.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10312

From:
Joseph Parrish Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 111
Summary:

Sends CD an address [missing] on Lucretius and St Paul.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10315

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B6–7
Summary:

Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10324

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Nature , 17 February 1876, pp. 304–5
Summary:

"Sambaquis", or shell mounds accumulated by former inhabitants of the coast, contain shells of some animals that FM has never seen living.

Ants that live on imbauba trees (Cecropia) are attracted by small bodies at base of each petiole.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10328

From:
Henry Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 3
Summary:

Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10329

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 165: 189
Summary:

AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]

and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].

Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10331

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 302
Summary:

BJS has just moved.

Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.

Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10331F

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Discusses fairy rings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10332

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:

His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10333

From:
Nemo
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 13
Summary:

A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10336

From:
Sigmund Fuchs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221
Summary:

Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10341

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 260
Summary:

H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

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DCP-LETT-10343

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Summary:

Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10346F

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10347

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 481
Summary:

At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.

Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10349

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 144–5
Summary:

Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10351

From:
Charles O’Shaughnessy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 173: 40
Summary:

He has confuted Descent.

Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.

Contributor:
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