From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
Summary:
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 178
Summary:
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 92
Summary:
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
6 Apr [1876-82]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Received Darlingtonia; cannot explain its fructification.
Declines invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:
JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bradshaw
Date:
12 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A40
Summary:
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 12, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Bell
Date:
14 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].
Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.
Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487)
Summary:
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 99: 92–3
Summary:
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter , 22 April 1876, p. 2
Summary:
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 69: A74–5
Summary:
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
