From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 30
Summary:
Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Discusses in detail how to prepare for experimental purposes a soil that lacks nutrients.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Sends advice on preparing and washing soil in preparation for CD’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 98v
Summary:
Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].
Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Summary:
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John George Fenwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 117
Summary:
Recounts family trait of excessive orderliness
and the behaviour of his dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 103
Summary:
Insectivorous plants is out
and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.
He is now at work on the geological writings.
Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".
Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 50
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.
Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.
Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 104
Summary:
A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 218
Summary:
Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 20
Summary:
NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 31
Summary:
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 32
Summary:
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 201
Summary:
Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:
Personal news – is unwell.
Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
