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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
June 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 15
Summary:
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Summary:
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harrison William Weir
Date:
[before 2 June 1876?]
Source of text:
Kent and Sussex Courier , 25 April 1884, p. 7
Summary:
‘Your mother ought indeed to feel proud that she had two sons such true naturalists as you and your brother [John Jenner Weir].’
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 16
Summary:
Looks to FD’s "grand discovery" as almost certain. Suggests observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 39
Summary:
Has got a dodge to see protoplasm in Drosera in dead state. Comes to Hopedene with Amy tomorrow. his paper went off well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 54
Summary:
Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.
Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg von Giźycki
Date:
2 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 343
Summary:
Thanks for essay [Philosophische Consequenzen der Lamarck–Darwin’schen Entwicklungstheorie (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 17, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 June 1876
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 15, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 136
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 55
Summary:
Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494)
Summary:
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 259-262
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 286-287]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Jerome Henry Kidder
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 169: 10
Summary:
Sends his papers ["Contributions to the natural history of Kerguelen Island", U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, nos. 2, 3 (1876)], which are inspired by Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project