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DCP-LETT-10408

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 172: 65
Summary:

Is putting together a natural history book for intelligent children [The puzzle of life (1877)]; would like CD’s opinion on the project in general and on the completed first chapter in particular.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10409

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 65/1v
Summary:

Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].

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FL-1210

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
26 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1410
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1000

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
28 February [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1014

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 1 March 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0771

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[March 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 131
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1129

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[March 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 55
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10412

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 30
Summary:

Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10414

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
2 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 147: 527
Summary:

Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.

Contributor:
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FL-1069

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 6 March 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.59
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1392

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 858
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1402

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 858
Summary:

Cancelled: duplicate of FL-1392.xml.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10416

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 142
Summary:

Sends some cash to help WED with moving expenses.

Contributor:
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FL-1001

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10–15 March 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10417

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 98v
Summary:

Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].

Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10418

From:
John George Fenwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 117
Summary:

Recounts family trait of excessive orderliness

and the behaviour of his dog.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10419

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 103
Summary:

Insectivorous plants is out

and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.

He is now at work on the geological writings.

Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".

Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10421

From:
Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.

Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.

Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10423

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 104
Summary:

A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10425

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 218
Summary:

Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.

Contributor:
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