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FVM-76-01-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
28 January 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10370

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

DCP-LETT-10371

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 51–2
Summary:

Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.

Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10373

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

DCP-LETT-10366F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Jan 1876?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58)
Summary:

Purchases cigarettes for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10374

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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DCP-LETT-10375

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan and 1 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 67
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.

Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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