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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
[August 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[August 1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
4 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 34
Summary:

Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.

RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
6 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 35
Summary:

CD accepts membership in the Birmingham Natural History Society.

Thanks RLT for article. CD cannot quite agree that "under a theological point of view, the origin of evil is explained by survival".

Is glad RLT has not given up polydactylism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
7 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 146: 437
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Müller’s article on Hedychium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 35
Summary:

Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 415–16
Summary:

Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.

CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Wedgwood, Rose
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
11 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1984
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
12 August 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1277
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
17 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.47
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 3
Summary:

Sends Serbian edition of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte translated by his late brother.

Serbian edition of Origin, translated by MMR, not yet published because of war with Turks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 211
Summary:

Sends three of his anthropological papers.

CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 August 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
26 August 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 821
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 August 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
29 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 307
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[31 August 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 138
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters