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From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 287–8
Summary:

Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.

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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 99: 92–3
Summary:

The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.

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From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 285–6
Summary:

Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.

Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.

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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 111: B50–4; DAR 160: 290
Summary:

Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata

and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]

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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92
Summary:

Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.

AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".

Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 111: A85, DAR 104: 73
Summary:

He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.

Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].

Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:

Personal news – is unwell.

Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:

JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 162: 33
Summary:

Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.

Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.

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From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 230
Summary:

Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.

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From:
Thomas William Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 170
Summary:

Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.

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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 66
Summary:

Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].

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From:
Thomas Bates Blow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 201
Summary:

Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.

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From:
Henry Beardmore Smyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 204
Summary:

Reports an observation on his child’s behaviour;

claims to have captured two moths of different species in the act of copulating with each other.

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From:
Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 180: 15
Summary:

Proposes an unorthodox theory of generation that explains sex determination and atavism.

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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 130
Summary:

Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?

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