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FVM-76-12-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
25 December 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.The transcription given in Moyal (2003), pp. 1155-6, differs from that given here
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4335

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
25 December 1876
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (47)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP785

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
25 December 1876
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418783
Summary:

Wallich's letter to the Daily News.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10734

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 212
Summary:

Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.

Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].

CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4336

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
26 December 1876
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (48)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10735

From:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 128
Summary:

Has read and greatly admires CD’s latest book, Cross and self-fertilisation; seeks permission to translate it into French and to add some annotations. [EMH’s translation was published in 1877.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10736

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 309
Summary:

No papers on heterostyly have appeared since 1873.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10737

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 213
Summary:

Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.

Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10738

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 69
Summary:

Describes new journal, Kosmos, to be edited by Ernst Krause. Asks CD to lend his name to journal.

Has sent Anthropogenie, 3d ed.

Will send his study [Biologische Studien, pt 2: Studien zur Gastraea-theorie (1877)] in January.

Thanks CD for hospitality at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10741

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 202
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Thanks for visit to Down.

Praise for CD’s theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10742

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 81
Summary:

Much pleased with CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation]. Is struck by width and caution of his generalisations and by the application of experiment to processes of life hitherto merely observed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10739

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
31 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 42 [9895])
Summary:

Thanks for EH’s Anthropogenie, 3d ed.

Sends Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10739F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
31 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Summary:

Would be honoured to have Cross and self fertilisation translated into French by EH; he has written to his French publisher, Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald.

EH’s notes will add interest and he would like to read them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10740

From:
Allen Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 112
Summary:

Is happy to sign F. M. Balfour’s application for admission to the Royal Society.

Remembers CD from Edinburgh days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10730F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter White
Date:
[after 31 Dec] 1876
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 147)
Summary:

Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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