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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
