From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 12
Summary:
FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Schmid
Date:
25 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 147: 427
Summary:
Thanks for RS’s work [Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 September 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.36, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH has received letters forwarded by Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer. He is concerned by the letter from Henry Prestoe about the Trinidad Botanic Garden, JDH will talk to the Colonial Office & Secretary of State for Colonies; Henry Herbert. He also recommends that Prestoe get a statement of support for the Trinidad garden into the GARDENERS CHRONICLE & other English papers. Mentions a blunder about a Pelargonium on the part of Alfred Russel Wallace & [John] Morley. JDH thinks that the exhibition of 'Scientific Mind' damaged the reputation of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by including Spiritualism, he thinks it was a poor decision by [Augustus Henry] Lane Fox. Mentions the news that Hevea [rubber] plants are not doing well & says the issue must be addressed with Clements Markham, he suggests an official representation from RBG Kew by [Sir Richard] Strachey, whose scientific position is acknowledged by Lord Salisbury [Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Secretary of State for India]. JDH is not surprised that [George Henry Kendrick] Thwaites does not like his job [of establishing Cinchona nurseries in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka]. JDH mentions an affliction affecting the Darwin family. JDH regrets the death of [Francis] Sibson, his son William Henslow Hooker's mentor. Wonders if [John] Duthie got his letter. Describes the weather in Aviemore. Next JDH will go to Stirling, visit [Brian Houghton] Hodgson & to Ailey Cottage to see Mr Woodward. Letters should be addressed to JDH care of James Findlay, Gargunnock. JDH asks for Thiselton-Dyer's ideas on what he could say at his next Royal Society address, he would like to talk about fossil botany.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
26 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 265
Summary:
Invites him to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[26 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 September [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.50
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 September 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 186
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
27 Sept 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 147–148)
Summary:
Sends first sheets of Cross and self fertilisation. The book is a very dull record of experiments, but nevertheless CD believes it is valuable for its remarkable and well-established results.
Orchids [2d ed.] will soon go to the printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
27 [Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 13
Summary:
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 141
Summary:
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Myron Leslie Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 97
Summary:
Sends J. H. Baxter, Statistics, medical and anthropological [2 vols. (1875)]; asks CD’s opinion on correlation of stature with certain types of diseases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 14
Summary:
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60)
Summary:
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[29 September 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.51
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
29 September 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 145
Summary:
Discusses the purchase of some land;
plans to visit Southampton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
29 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.500)
Summary:
Mr Laslett, a builder, will meet WCM on Tuesday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John J. (John) Van der Weyde
Date:
29 Sept 1876
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Charles Robert Darwin miscellaneous file)
Summary:
Thanks JVdW for photographs of fossils; [W. H.] Flower has identified them as Toxodon and Mylodon.
Sends suggestions for collecting fossil mammals in Argentina and Uruguay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project