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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 90
Summary:

Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 92
Summary:

Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
[before 3 January 1876]
Source of text:
Zacharias 1876 , pp. 19–20
Summary:

In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
4 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37)
Summary:

Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 50
Summary:

Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
10 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Dallinger
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3)
Summary:

CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.

The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:

Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
15 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 36 [9889])
Summary:

Thanks EH for Arabische Korallen [1876].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
21 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890])
Summary:

EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].

Discusses possible meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:

Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:

Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111)
Summary:

Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].

AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].

Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3)
Summary:

Thanks for SL’s [Études sur les echinoïdées (1875)]. Nothing could be more difficult than the homologies of this group.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015)
Summary:

Sends autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[4 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7)
Summary:

Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.

Mentions visit to Royal Society.

Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962)
Summary:

Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.

Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch
Date:
6 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a)
Summary:

Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project