From:
Charles O’Shaughnessy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 173: 40
Summary:
He has confuted Descent.
Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas William Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 170
Summary:
Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 66
Summary:
Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].
Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bates Blow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 201
Summary:
Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Beardmore Smyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 204
Summary:
Reports an observation on his child’s behaviour;
claims to have captured two moths of different species in the act of copulating with each other.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
17–18 January [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 180: 15
Summary:
Proposes an unorthodox theory of generation that explains sex determination and atavism.
Contributor:
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From:
Abbot, F. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 86
Summary:
He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 130
Summary:
Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B185
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:
Obliged for Belfast Journal.
Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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
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
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1 February 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1409
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters