From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
Summary:
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 178
Summary:
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 92
Summary:
Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.
Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.
Contributor:
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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:
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Text Online
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:
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From:
Pollock, Frederick
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 April [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1918
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 93; Belfast News-Letter , 22 April 1876, p. 2
Summary:
Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[15 April 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.58
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 69: A74–5
Summary:
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
Contributor:
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From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 285–6
Summary:
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
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From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 8
Summary:
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:
Sends some potato plants and tubers.
Contributor:
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