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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
[August 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[August 1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 41–2)
Summary:

Requests orchid specimens for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
4 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 August 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.254, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 34
Summary:

Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.

RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 August 1876
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 WALLACE A. RUSSEL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
6 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 35
Summary:

CD accepts membership in the Birmingham Natural History Society.

Thanks RLT for article. CD cannot quite agree that "under a theological point of view, the origin of evil is explained by survival".

Is glad RLT has not given up polydactylism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
7 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 146: 437
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Müller’s article on Hedychium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
8 August 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 35
Summary:

Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 43)
Summary:

Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Willian Henry Archer
To:
Albert Le Souef
Date:
8 August 1876
Source of text:
A345, Royal Park Zoological Society letter and minute book, pp. 220-2, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (112)
Summary:

AG’s Darwiniana [1876].

Cross and self-fertilisation has now gone to press.

Is preparing new edition of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 415–16
Summary:

Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.

CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
McCarron, Bird & Co.
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 August 1876
Source of text:
K76/10427, unit 930, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence VA 475 Chief Secretary Department, Public Record office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
10 August 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.255, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Wedgwood, Rose
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
11 August [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1984
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
12 August 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1277
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
12 August 1876
Source of text:
J76/8599, unit 883, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project