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DCP-LETT-10840

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:
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DCP-LETT-10385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26)
Summary:

Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10386

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

DCP-LETT-10389

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
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FVM-76-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
12 February 1876
Source of text:
No. 1277, vol. 1876 K, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10390

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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FL-0999

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

DCP-LETT-10391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:

Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.

Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10392

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

DCP-LETT-10394

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:
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DCP-LETT-10393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10398

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
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FVM-76-02-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
16 February 1876
Source of text:
K76/1416, unit 874, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10395

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
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DCP-LETT-10399

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Describes self- and cross-fertilisation experiments.

Asks JHG’s advice on setting up an experiment designed to test whether the cause of variation in cultivated plants lies in different substances absorbed from the soil when absorption is not interfered with by other plants in a state of nature. Can JHG suggest how he can get soil free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10396

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
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DCP-LETT-10401

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
18 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date)
Summary:

Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[18 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869)
Summary:

Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.

Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:

Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.

On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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