From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 37–8
Summary:
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 58
Summary:
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Contributor:
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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 12
Summary:
Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 1
Summary:
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 53
Summary:
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 59
Summary:
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Frédéric Martins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 62
Summary:
Richard Gordon’s French translation of Climbing plants [1877] is half printed.
In Martins’ Introduction to [Éd. Barbier’s translation of] Insectivorous plants [1877] he wants to include a complete bibliography of CD’s works: their extent is not generally known in France.
Contributor:
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From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 164–5
Summary:
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B126–9
Summary:
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
Contributor:
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 111: B50–4; DAR 160: 290
Summary:
Observations on pollinia of Orchis maculata
and on Primula elatior. [On latter, see Forms of flowers, p. 34.]
Contributor:
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