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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 39
Summary:
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jerome Henry Kidder
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 10
Summary:
Sends his papers ["Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island", U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, nos. 2, 3 (1876)], which are inspired by Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 June 1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 97
Summary:
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B124
Summary:
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B124-125
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 263
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 287-289]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 55
Summary:
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 57–8
Summary:
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 156
Summary:
Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bruno Schreiber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 63
Summary:
Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project