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DCP-LETT-10535

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
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DCP-LETT-10535H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sackville Arthur Cecil
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco (dealers) (7–8 July 2020, lot 751)
Summary:

Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10535F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Asks about constituents of burnt soil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10535G

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

On burnt soils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10536

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

DCP-LETT-10537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:

CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10537F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[15 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495)
Summary:

Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.

Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
[17 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 346
Summary:

Comments on Weismann’s remarks on the possibility of sexual selection in the genus Daphnia.

A. R. Wallace has published paper giving up sexual selection [Review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter.] in Academy, 10 and 17 June 1876, pp. 587–8.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794)
Summary:

Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10539F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Raab Collection (dealer) (November 2014)
Summary:

Obliged for the new edition of The Andes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10541

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
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DCP-LETT-10540

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
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DCP-LETT-10553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
Date:
[late June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 36
Summary:

Wishes to arrange for William Darwin to see AC. William has suffered a concussion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:

CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:

Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10545

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
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DCP-LETT-10546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin ( The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Summary:

Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10548

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
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