From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 15
Summary:
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 16
Summary:
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 39
Summary:
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 54
Summary:
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg von Giźycki
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 343
Summary:
Thanks for essay [Philosophische Consequenzen der Lamarck–Darwin’schen Entwicklungstheorie (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 136
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 55
Summary:
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jerome Henry Kidder
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 10
Summary:
Sends his papers ["Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island", U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, nos. 2, 3 (1876)], which are inspired by Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963)
Summary:
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 97
Summary:
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B124
Summary:
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
[17 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 346
Summary:
Comments on Weismann’s remarks on the possibility of sexual selection in the genus Daphnia.
A. R. Wallace has published paper giving up sexual selection [Review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter.] in Academy, 10 and 17 June 1876, pp. 587–8.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 55
Summary:
Comments on an address by William Thomson (‘On the rigidity of the earth’?), which is about the same problem that GHD is working on. Is confident Thomson has overlooked some points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 57–8
Summary:
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Clark, 1st baronet
Date:
[late June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 36
Summary:
Wishes to arrange for William Darwin to see AC. William has suffered a concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
