From:
Friedrich (Fritz) Hoddick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 224
Summary:
Met CD at a bath the previous summer.
Proposes he work on human illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27? Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 56
Summary:
Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert James (Robert) Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 153
Summary:
Encloses printed letter from Land and Water in which he proposes a hypothesis that explains how soaring birds can stay aloft by expelling air from their lungs.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 181: 128
Summary:
Sends photograph of man with peculiar facial features, whom HW treated at St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital.
Contributor:
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From:
Foster Barham Zincke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 184: 11
Summary:
Considers different animal instincts, some of which have reversed, others of which have proved persistent.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Brittain
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 312
Summary:
Informs CD about Apocynum androsaemifolium, an insectivorous plant not mentioned in CD’s book. Offers to send specimen.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert James (Robert) Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 154
Summary:
Adds a point to his previous letter regarding the buoyancy of birds and their soaring capacity.
Contributor:
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 166
Summary:
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 26
Summary:
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14] Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 25
Summary:
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 24
Summary:
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 71–2
Summary:
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Contributor:
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