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DCP-LETT-10450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Bell
Date:
14 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].

Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.

Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-04-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 April 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 175
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10449

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487)
Summary:

Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].

Will call on GJR in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10452

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2558

From:
George T. Tickell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 April 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 135-136
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10451

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1068

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

DCP-LETT-10453

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.

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FVM-76-04-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 April 1876
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-04-16a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
16 April 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1871-81, f. 176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10454

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10455

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10282

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10456

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10458

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:

JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for information he needs for the German translation [of Coral reefs], including correct titles of reference books and the name of a voyager.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10458F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59)
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25))
Summary:

J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
20 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 153: 3
Summary:

Grieves over poor account of her health. Emma and Henrietta are also ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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