From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
JT may publish CD’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George T. Tickell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 April 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 133-134
Summary:
Informing ARW of Tickell's encounters with spirits at séances, in particular with Saint Peter, John Haydn, George Keats, Thomas Paine, Ruth Goodyel and Bob Eopskil. Tickell informs ARW of the promises made to Tickell by these spirits to perform various phenomena; Haydn promises to play some of his own compositions on the piano at Tickell's 27th séance!.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Pollock, Frederick
To:
Darwin, Francis?
Date:
8 April [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1917
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Pollock, Frederick
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 April [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1918
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:
JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bradshaw
Date:
12 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A40
Summary:
Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 April 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 12, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Date:
12 April 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 April 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Bell
Date:
14 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].
Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.
Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 April 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 175
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487)
Summary:
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 99: 92–3
Summary:
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George T. Tickell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 April 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 135-136
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project