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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 March [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 31
Summary:
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Lillie Craik
Date:
26 March 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 7-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 32
Summary:
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 201
Summary:
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Summary:
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alexander Macmillan
Date:
28 March 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 9-10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
29 March 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
29 March 1876
Source of text:
K76/3065, unit 876, 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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alexander Macmillan
Date:
30 March 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 11-12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
31 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
Stuart Opotowsky (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project