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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
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: C20–1
Summary:
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962)
Summary:
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[mid February 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 179
Summary:
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643)
Summary:
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Christie Thomson
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14)
Summary:
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 365
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 189
Summary:
Inquires whether insectivorous habit in plants supplements or replaces the normal method of plant nutrition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 338
Summary:
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Moore
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B186–7
Summary:
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
B. J. Edwards & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 2
Summary:
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B3–B11
Summary:
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C61–2
Summary:
Observations on hive- and humble-bees. Perforating habits differ in different individuals of the same species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 98
Summary:
Encloses statement of sales of Origin, Expression, Descent, and Insectivorous plants to 1 Feb 1876.
Has charged against CD’s account half the cost of old plates from Judd for Variation. When will plates for new edition be sent?
Insectivorous plants not selling well because of general depression in business.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 482
Summary:
Murray wishes to settle payments for Descent [2d ed., 11th thousand]. Over 500 copies of the 1000 printed have been sold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 28–9
Summary:
RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.
Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project