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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
Outlines in simple form the statistical distribution of inherited characteristics in a theory of "organic units".
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.
Sends CD an address [missing] on Lucretius and St Paul.
Sends list of misprints in first edition of Insectivorous plants for the German collected works.
CD is curious about the feathers but will wait to see whether H. C. Sorby’s paper appears.
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
E. R. Lankester has been unfairly blackballed at the Linnean Society. He is to be proposed for a second time, with CD seconding the proposal. Urges ARW to attend the ballot.
He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.
Sends his paper on an American pitcher-plant [Darlingtonia californica].
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.
BJS has just moved.
Gives the information he has of their old shipmates.
Tells of his brother’s misfortunes.
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
Regrets having missed seeing CD when he was in London.
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".