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:
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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 33
Summary:
Claims to have proved the great antiquity of several plant races. But this does not contradict the tendency to vary. Insists that heredity can make permanent varieties of sufficient duration to occur as fossils.
Contributor:
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From:
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 92
Summary:
PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.
CD’s works stir interest in America.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 306
Summary:
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 292
Summary:
His research on Orchis maculata.
Discusses effect of disuse of anthers in Salvia officinalis.
Pleased CD can use his observations on Primula elatior.
Contributor:
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From:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana (VadSlg NL 202: 33: 27q)
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending a photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 60–1
Summary:
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann von Fischer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 120, 120a
Summary:
Describes behaviour of apes and monkeys in presenting coloured hindquarters.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann von Fischer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 119, 119a–c
Summary:
Mentions observations on apes and other mammals. Describes habits of apes and monkeys in presenting hindquarters. Thinks species that present always have colourful hindquarters. Discusses possible exceptions to rule.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Seare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 125
Summary:
Describes example of instinctive behaviour in new-born leveret.
Cites experiment in which rabbit breathed vapour of nitrite of amyl.
Suggests that change in terrestrial atmosphere is responsible for evolution from scales to fur or feathers.
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45
Summary:
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 62–5
Summary:
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 141
Summary:
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
Contributor:
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From:
Myron Leslie Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 97
Summary:
Sends J. H. Baxter, Statistics, medical and anthropological [2 vols. (1875)]; asks CD’s opinion on correlation of stature with certain types of diseases.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60)
Summary:
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Contributor:
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