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DCP-LETT-10435

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

DCP-LETT-10242

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.

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DCP-LETT-10437

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10438

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10439

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10444

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.

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DCP-LETT-10446

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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DCP-LETT-10448

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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DCP-LETT-10452

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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DCP-LETT-10453

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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DCP-LETT-10454

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.

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DCP-LETT-10455

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

DCP-LETT-10282

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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DCP-LETT-10456

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

DCP-LETT-10458

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

DCP-LETT-10458F

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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DCP-LETT-10466

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

DCP-LETT-10467

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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DCP-LETT-10469

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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DCP-LETT-10472

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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