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DCP-LETT-10360

From:
Henry Beardmore Smyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 204
Summary:

Reports an observation on his child’s behaviour;

claims to have captured two moths of different species in the act of copulating with each other.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0996

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
17–18 January [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10361

From:
Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 180: 15
Summary:

Proposes an unorthodox theory of generation that explains sex determination and atavism.

Contributor:
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FVM-76-01-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Woolls
Date:
18 January 1876
Source of text:
ML DOC 3229, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0324

From:
Abbot, F. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10362G

From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:

Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3361

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Wentworth Dilke
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 43910 f. 99
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10363

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
21 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890])
Summary:

EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.

Contributor:
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FVM-76-01-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
22 January 1876
Source of text:
K76/676, unit 873, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FVM-M76-01-22

From:
William Woolls
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 January 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS.563/3 E. P. Ramsay papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP6971

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 January 1876
Source of text:
Yale University Library, Manuscript and Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-01-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
24 January 1876
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Miscellaneous loose letters, Fellows' files, Mueller, F von, letter no. 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10366

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 86
Summary:

He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].

Discusses possible meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10365

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 130
Summary:

Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2328

From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 January 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 323
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10367

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B185
Summary:

In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:

Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:

Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

Contributor:
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FVM-76-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 January 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 172
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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