From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 8
Summary:
F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:
Sends some potato plants and tubers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:
JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59)
Summary:
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 135
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Jacob (Heinrich) Goldschmidt; Eduard Porges von Portheim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 60
Summary:
Two student adherents of his theory correct an error in Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Hugh Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 174: 28
Summary:
Observations on expression and variation in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 51
Summary:
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 33
Summary:
Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 56
Summary:
Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 24
Summary:
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 52
Summary:
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
CD’s copy of Volcanic islands (CUL, CCA 24.14); tipped in at back
Summary:
Informs CD which woodblocks of illustrations to the Geology of "Beagle" are in their possession and which are missing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 30
Summary:
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 23
Summary:
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Laxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 159–63
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query as to the duration of crossed varieties of peas. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 305.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 287–8
Summary:
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 38
Summary:
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moritz Schiff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 86: B8–9
Summary:
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
