From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
1 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.486)
Summary:
Comments on paper by HE [see 10328].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 30
Summary:
Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157)
Summary:
Sends signed enclosure.
FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
2 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 147: 527
Summary:
Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Discusses in detail how to prepare for experimental purposes a soil that lacks nutrients.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 858
Summary:
Cancelled: duplicate of FL-1392.xml.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sophie McIlvaine Bledsoe (Sophie) (Bledsoe) Herrick
Date:
6 Mar 1876
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 61 MSS 3361-a)
Summary:
CD came to believe Drosera drew its nourishment from insects because it grows where no other plants survive. Doubts glands are modified stomata.
Suggests works by Grönland and Trécul.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 142
Summary:
Sends some cash to help WED with moving expenses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
[before 9 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Thanks for advice concerning preparation of soil for experiments. Will order the salts. Asks about burning soil or washing it with acid.
Thanks for invitation. His son [Francis] would like to inspect JHG’s plots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Sends advice on preparing and washing soil in preparation for CD’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
9 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:
Thanks for EAS’s paper, translated from its original German, Sur la formation et la division des cellules (Strasburger 1876a).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 98v
Summary:
Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].
Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 March 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.56-57, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH has invited Judge Hastings & family to lunch. JDH currently working on GENERA PLANTARUM & proofs of FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, with the sub-par help of Baker. JDH sending Asa Gray a copy of his [SCIENCE] PRIMER[: BOTANY] for critique. Looks forward to seeing the synoptic sample of Gray's FLORA BOREALIS AMERICANA. JDH would like to visit Gray but cannot leave his family with nobody to care for them. Thinks he must marry again. His daughter, Harriet [Anne Hooker] is ill & has been staying with the Munros near Taunton & her aunt, JDH's sister, in Torquay. Mentions Tyndall's marriage: ceremony performed by Dean Stanley, hopes the new Mrs Tyndall will be a good influence. Lady Augusta died the day after the wedding & the flowers JDH sent for the wedding became wreaths for a coffin. [Sir E. Ray] Lankester has been voted into the Linnean Society despite Carruther's opposition. Comments on George Allman as president of the Linnean Society & his own wish to resign the Vice President-ship. Mentions sending ROYAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS & clavis of Nyctago[?] to Gray. Reports on the progress of getting the new Herbarium building approved & constructed. It transpires the site & present herbarium house belong to RBG Kew having been sold by King George IV, meaning subsequent monarchs William IV & Queen Victoria never actually owned Hanover House. The existing building will become a library, as originally intended by Joseph Banks, & an extension built for the herbarium. JDH is called away to work on the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Summary:
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John George Fenwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 164: 117
Summary:
Recounts family trait of excessive orderliness
and the behaviour of his dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 103
Summary:
Insectivorous plants is out
and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.
He is now at work on the geological writings.
Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".
Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John George Fenwick
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Rare and Special Books Collection of the University Libraries
Summary:
"The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some ""orderlings"" in my own composition, and I wish I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 50
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.
Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.
Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 139–140)
Summary:
Glad to hear that [German edition of] Insectivorous plants is published.
Thanks for errata in Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Sends list [missing] of his papers, with those certainly not worth translating marked with a red line.
Reports on work in progress.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 104
Summary:
A difficulty with a passage in Coral reefs about "vertical thickness", which JVC thinks should read "horizontal extent".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project