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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-10514

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

DCP-LETT-10514A

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

DCP-LETT-10515

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

DCP-LETT-10515F

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

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10516

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

DCP-LETT-10517

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

DCP-LETT-10517F

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

DCP-LETT-10518

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

DCP-LETT-10519

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
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DCP-LETT-10520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[15 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495)
Summary:

Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10521

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.

Hopes to see WB before he returns home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10522

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:

Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10524

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Summary:

Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].

Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.

Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.

Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10524F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harrison William Weir
Date:
[before 2 June 1876?]
Source of text:
Kent and Sussex Courier , 25 April 1884, p. 7
Summary:

‘Your mother ought indeed to feel proud that she had two sons such true naturalists as you and your brother [John Jenner Weir].’

Contributor:
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