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DCP-LETT-10428

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 33
Summary:

RLT’s two articles in Spectator [4 Mar and 25 Mar 1876] greatly honour CD.

Tait has made a good point about "Survival of the Fittest".

Dr Rudinger’s extensive inquiries show that all eminent German surgeons are unanimous about non-growth of extra digit after amputation.

J. Kollmann has written regretting CD has given up atavism and extra digits [in 2d ed. of Variation]; gives new evidence of a rudimentary sixth digit in batrachians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10430

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar – 24 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 20
Summary:

NL has written an essay Toldot adam (Lewy 1874, privately printed in book form as Lewy [1875]) to convince his people of the truth of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
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FL-1051

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 March [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10429

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 31
Summary:

Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10431

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 32
Summary:

Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10432

From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:

Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10435

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 201
Summary:

Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10242

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:

Personal news – is unwell.

Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.

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DCP-LETT-10437

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 131
Summary:

Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.

Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10438

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
Summary:

A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.

Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10439

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 178
Summary:

Encloses Pinguicula specimens.

Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
4 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 92
Summary:

Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.

Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10444

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:

Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.

Contributor:
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FL-1249

From:
Pollock, Frederick
To:
Darwin, Francis?
Date:
8 April [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1917
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10445

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:

McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

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FL-1250

From:
Pollock, Frederick
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 April [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1918
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:

JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10446

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:

Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bradshaw
Date:
12 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A40
Summary:

Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]

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DCP-LETT-10448

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 132
Summary:

JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.

Seeking financial backing for his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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