From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:
Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.
Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
Summary:
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 178
Summary:
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Requests permission to publish CD’s previous letter [10440].
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin
Summary:
Believes publishing CD’s letter will enable JT to suppress the potato disease several years sooner.
Returns CD’s answer to JT’s question "What is an individual?", and repeats his request for permission to publish it.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:
JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.
Seeking financial backing for his research.
Contributor:
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 99: 92–3
Summary:
The Royal Society have not accepted R. L. Tait’s paper on insectivorous plants; it will be returned to CD, who submitted it.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 69: A74–5
Summary:
Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.
Contributor:
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From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 285–6
Summary:
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.]
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