From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
13 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 347
Summary:
Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
16 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 331
Summary:
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 147
Summary:
Writes about the purchase of a horse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 148
Summary:
Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Voysey
Date:
21 Nov [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 97
Summary:
Agrees with much of CV’s proposed protest but cannot sign it. Feels it is likely to do more harm than good.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 119
Summary:
Is working at dimorphic plants;
is astonished at WED’s labour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
