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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
21 December [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 143
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[5?] December [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.54
Summary:
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
23 December [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.55
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 17 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.56
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
9 December 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1652
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
9 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of the second edition of Strasburger’s Über Zellbildung und Zelltheilung (On cell formation and cell division; Strasburger 1876b).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 105: A96
Summary:
Gives another instance of curious habit in the Butler family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Brittain
Date:
1 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Manchester City News , 24 June 1882
Summary:
Thanks TB for calling his attention to the case of the Apocynum; is unable to understand the trap-like arrangement [of the flowers].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 19
Summary:
Thanks CD for translation of Climbing plants.
AG is at work on Les enchaînements du monde animal [1878]. Will send CD a copy as soon as it is ready.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (115)
Summary:
Plans to republish his paper on dimorphism with additions [Forms of flowers]. Is convinced it is necessary to compare pollen-grains and the state of the stigma to recognise dimorphic plants. Requests specific plants to test for dimorphism and would welcome examples from any family in which he has not encountered dimorphic species.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
6 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:
Sorry to hear of JLGK’s troubles. Cannot organise a subscription but sends £5.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 214
Summary:
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 308
Summary:
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Fritz Müller has been appointed "Naturalista Viajante" of the Rio de Janeiro Museum, which will help his income greatly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 145
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 80
Summary:
Questions CD on sale of his books in America by Appleton and other publishers; copyright and translation rights.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
8 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717)
Summary:
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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