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DCP-LETT-10462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A41–2
Summary:

The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 94
Summary:

Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.

Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society
Summary:

Congratulations on finding water-lily.

Thanks for Pinguicula specimens.

Asks for reference to her article on Utricularia [see 10508].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162)
Summary:

Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44)
Summary:

Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.

Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.

Returns extracts.

Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.

CD now working on plants;

doubts he will ever return to working on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Summary:

Discussing a reprint of South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 135
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10467

From:
Heinrich Jacob (Heinrich) Goldschmidt; Eduard Porges von Portheim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 60
Summary:

Two student adherents of his theory correct an error in Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-04-24

From:
Alexander Paterson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 April 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153)
Summary:

Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.

All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1052

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
24 April [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10469

From:
William Hugh Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 174: 28
Summary:

Observations on expression and variation in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 202: 84
Summary:

The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10472

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 51
Summary:

Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Claridge Druce
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy, One of the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford (Druce Archives 5.0.1)
Summary:

Thanks Naturalist Society and Club of Northampton for his election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 407
Summary:

CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10473

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 33
Summary:

Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13838

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624)
Summary:

Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10474F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Edmund Harting
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (2 October 2019, lot 259)
Summary:

Thanks for the offer of JEH’s manuscript notes, but he is not planning to work on the subject again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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