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FVM-76-06-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
14 June 1876
Source of text:
K76/6174, unit 930, 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

DCP-LETT-10520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[15 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495)
Summary:

Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC871

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
16 June 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP1968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1876
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 264-267
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 289-292]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further detailed comments on Geographical distribution.

Base treatment [of George Darwin] by Mivart in Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10335

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

DCP-LETT-10539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Universität Zürich, Archiv für Medizingeschichte (AfM ZH PN 31.2:794)
Summary:

Asks how the Coleoptera that inhabit the nests of ants colonise a new nest. Wallace has suggested their ova become attached to winged female ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10539F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
19 June 1876
Source of text:
Raab Collection (dealer) (November 2014)
Summary:

Obliged for the new edition of The Andes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10541

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
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DCP-LETT-10540

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
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DCP-LETT-10553

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
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DCP-LETT-10542

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
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DCP-LETT-10543

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
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DCP-LETT-10545

From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 156
Summary:

Coleoptera inhabiting ants’ nests. Means of colonisation of new nests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin ( The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Summary:

Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10548

From:
Bruno Schreiber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 63
Summary:

Describes cosmological ideas of Christian Radenhausen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bruno Schreiber
Date:
[after 24 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 63v
Summary:

Doubts Christian Radenhausen’s cosmological views are based on fact.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 June 1876
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 268-270
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 292-294]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-06-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Bolander
Date:
26 June 1876
Source of text:
Bolander correspondence, University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley, California
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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