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WCP2345

From:
Johann Alexander ("Alexander") Ecker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 December 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 356-357
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10707

From:
Robert James (Robert) Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 154
Summary:

Adds a point to his previous letter regarding the buoyancy of birds and their soaring capacity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10711

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 26
Summary:

Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10710

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 427–8
Summary:

Plants received from JDH.

Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10709

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 40) (EH 88205870)
Summary:

FM’s new position in Rio.

CD interested in nature of surface deposits at Rio.

Sends a copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10714

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720)
Summary:

Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.

Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10716

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1)
Summary:

CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10718

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 167
Summary:

Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.

Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10715

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 71–2
Summary:

Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-12-13

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 December 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC200

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
13 December 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10717

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B130–1
Summary:

Responds to CD’s new work [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Suggests results might have been more convincing if CD had measured weights instead of heights. The fact that infertile hybrids have not been produced means that the "one great objection" has not been got rid of: the physiological characteristic of species. Suggests an experiment to produce "sterile mongrels" which would remove objection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1971

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 December 1876
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B130-131
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 273
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 296-297]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10713

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 24
Summary:

Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10712

From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14] Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 25
Summary:

Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10719

From:
William Renton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 122
Summary:

Corrects Descent [1: 294] on inheritance of tortoise-shell colour in cats. It does not violate rule that characters appearing late in one sex are transmitted exclusively to the same sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10721

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 429
Summary:

JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10721F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70
Summary:

CD is eager for further information about Lagerstroemia, which is sterile with its own pollen. Does the collection of dried plants reveal more than one form? Plans to republish papers on dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10720

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Smiles
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (SMILES/DARWIN, formerly MS 97–1947)
Summary:

Thanks SS for present of Life of a Scotch naturalist [1876]. Has read every one of his biographies with "extreme pleasure".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10724

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 19
Summary:

Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.

Discusses geographical implications of inbreeding. Can the length of time an insular flora has been isolated be estimated by its weakness due to inbreeding?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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