From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015)
Summary:
Sends autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[4 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7)
Summary:
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962)
Summary:
Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.
Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch
Date:
6 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a)
Summary:
Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
7 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Società dei Naturalisti di Modena
Date:
8 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena
Summary:
Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[9 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868)
Summary:
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 179
Summary:
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643)
Summary:
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 26)
Summary:
Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Christie Thomson
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14)
Summary:
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 22a)
Summary:
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 338
Summary:
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Describes self- and cross-fertilisation experiments.
Asks JHG’s advice on setting up an experiment designed to test whether the cause of variation in cultivated plants lies in different substances absorbed from the soil when absorption is not interfered with by other plants in a state of nature. Can JHG suggest how he can get soil free of all the substances which plants naturally absorb?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
18 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date)
Summary:
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[18 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 39) (EH 88205869)
Summary:
Has received seeds of Cecropia peltata from Kew.
Has asked Hermann Müller to send copy of FM’s paper as soon as published.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40)
Summary:
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
22 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993)
Summary:
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 65/1v
Summary:
Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project