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
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B124-125
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 263
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 287-289]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
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:
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1876
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B126-129
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 271-272
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 294-296]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 32
Summary:
Experimenting on climbing plants.
Has no further information on Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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
From:
John Arthur Ransome-Marriott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 21
Summary:
Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project