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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
28 January 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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111)
Summary:

Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].

AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].

Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 51–2
Summary:

Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.

Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Inkommande brev, vol E1:3)
Summary:

Thanks for SL’s [Études sur les echinoïdées (1875)]. Nothing could be more difficult than the homologies of this group.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Jan 1876?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58)
Summary:

Purchases cigarettes for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan and 1 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 67
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.

Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Symonds
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
February 1876
Source of text:
76/R4853, unit 735, VPRS 1207/P000 inward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria.Letter not found. The text given here is from an unsigned copy of the minute (no. 1756) among the annotations on M's letter to E. Symonds, 9 February 1876
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1 February 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1409
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: C20–1
Summary:

Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.

His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].

The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Lillie Craik
Date:
2 February 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 5-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."

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
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
J76/1250, unit 875, 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