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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 143
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 13
Summary:
Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.
Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Henderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 141
Summary:
His long experience with propagation of Cytisus and other "sports".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert James (Robert) Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 155
Summary:
Discusses further his theory relating to the soaring capacity of birds.
Mentions hybrids produced by various crossings of game-birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Smiles
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Has written via John Murray to thank for SS’s biography of Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876).
Is happy to sign a memorial concerning a Civil List pension for Thomas Edward.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 123
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Francis Darwin’s observation of nectaries in Pteris is most curious.
Doubts cross-fertilisation in the rare cases of two flowers on the same stalk in Victoria and Euryale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 17 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 110: B78a
Summary:
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
18 December 1876
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: SPR. MS 3/A4/137
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 197]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry Smith
Date:
19 December 1876
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/1 f.53, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he is waiting to hear whether the Royal Society has accepted the proposal that it undertake the work on Sir Wyville Thomson's specimens [from the HMS 'Challenger' expedition]. If the suggestion is approved JDH will submit a detailed plan. The plan has already been prepared, a complex procedure as a work of such scope has never been undertaken before. The plan will ask for £3500 for 1877-1878 for the publication of the work. JDH asks Smith to authorise the submission of the plan to the Navy[?].
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Andrew Leith Adams
Date:
19 December 1876
Source of text:
University College Dublin
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Edward Simonds Boulger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 258
Summary:
Is engaged in translating Hermann Müller’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Has observed Sphinx moths on Petunia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
20 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155)
Summary:
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (116)
Summary:
Thanks for information about Hottonia.
Has found dimorphism in Forsythia.
Considers AG’s arguments on different terms for dimorphism, but cannot change to using the proposed new term [see 10699].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
21 December [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends his signature
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 110: B36–7, B74–5
Summary:
Discusses some dimorphic plants.
Sends specimens of Rhamnus but his few specimens of Leucosmia are very poor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
23 December [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.55
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for volume on craniology
and for suggestion to Austrian Government that CD receive volumes on Novara voyage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 December 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters