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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2)
Summary:
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives (Henry Smith Williams Manuscript Collection vol. 3, p. 47)
Summary:
All who battle in the cause of evolution do good service.
Has no questions about the natural history of Bermuda.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 141–142)
Summary:
Clarifies a passage [in Coral reefs, 2d ed. (1874)], which JVC had questioned.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:
Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Summary:
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
31 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
Stuart Opotowsky (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks FJC for paper by Alexander Fraustadt ["Vegetative Organe von Dionaea", Ell. Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 2 (1877): 27–64].
Mentions paper by A. W. Bennett ["Glands of carnivorous plants", Mon. Microsc. J. 15 (1876): 1–5].
Contributor:
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