Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1876::03 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 21–40 of 54 items

JHC167

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 March 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.56-57, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has invited Judge Hastings & family to lunch. JDH currently working on GENERA PLANTARUM & proofs of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, with the sub-par help of Baker. JDH sending Asa Gray a copy of his [SCIENCE] PRIMER[: BOTANY] for critique. Looks forward to seeing the synoptic sample of Gray's FLORA BOREALIS AMERICANA. JDH would like to visit Gray but cannot leave his family with nobody to care for them. Thinks he must marry again. His daughter, Harriet [Anne Hooker] is ill & has been staying with the Munros near Taunton & her aunt, JDH's sister, in Torquay. Mentions Tyndall's marriage: ceremony performed by Dean Stanley, hopes the new Mrs Tyndall will be a good influence. Lady Augusta died the day after the wedding & the flowers JDH sent for the wedding became wreaths for a coffin. [Sir E. Ray] Lankester has been voted into the Linnean Society despite Carruther's opposition. Comments on George Allman as president of the Linnean Society & his own wish to resign the Vice President-ship. Mentions sending ROYAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS & clavis of Nyctago[?] to Gray. Reports on the progress of getting the new Herbarium building approved & constructed. It transpires the site & present herbarium house belong to RBG Kew having been sold by King George IV, meaning subsequent monarchs William IV & Queen Victoria never actually owned Hanover House. The existing building will become a library, as originally intended by Joseph Banks, & an extension built for the herbarium. JDH is called away to work on the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online

WCP7059

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Cort Haddon
Date:
14 March [1876?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Papers of Alfred C. Haddon
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10421F

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Summary:

Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John George Fenwick
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Rare and Special Books Collection of the University Libraries
Summary:

"The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some ""orderlings"" in my own composition, and I wish I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140)
Summary:

Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.

Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.

Reports on work in progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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
Text Online

FVM-76-03-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
21 March 1876
Source of text:
J76/2668, unit 1022, 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
Text Online

WCP6000

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Harris
Date:
21 March 1876
Source of text:
UCLA Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library: George Harris Papers, Series 30, no. 74
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10423F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2)
Summary:

Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives (Henry Smith Williams Manuscript Collection vol. 3, p. 47)
Summary:

All who battle in the cause of evolution do good service.

Has no questions about the natural history of Bermuda.

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142)
Summary:

Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

FVM-76-03-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
24 March 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS 562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1514

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
25 March 1876
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1223

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
25 March 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.251-253, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 33
Summary:

RLT’s two articles in Spectator [4 Mar and 25 Mar 1876] greatly honour CD.

Tait has made a good point about "Survival of the Fittest".

Dr Rudinger’s extensive inquiries show that all eminent German surgeons are unanimous about non-growth of extra digit after amputation.

J. Kollmann has written regretting CD has given up atavism and extra digits [in 2d ed. of Variation]; gives new evidence of a rudimentary sixth digit in batrachians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10430

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 20
Summary:

NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available