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DCP-LETT-10489A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 5
Summary:

Expresses his pride in FD, whose article ["On the structure of the snail’s heart", J. Anat. Physiol. 10 (1876): 506–10] was highly praised by G. H. Lewes.

Lewes has also been quoting FD’s letter in Nature [13 (1876): 384–5] on pycrotoxine in relation to the vivisection controversy.

Was introduced to James Sully, author of the article in Mind on Wilhelm Wundt ["Physiological psychology in Germany", 1 (1876): 20–43]

and Sensation and intuition (1874) [see 10320], by "Mrs Lewes" (George Eliot).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
Wiener Neue Freie Presse , 22 April 1882, p. 2
Summary:

Thanks CC for dedication [of his Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems (1876)]. Congratulates CC on completion of work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 May [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 53
Summary:

Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10495A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
3 May 1876
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

His samples of earth have been sent for analysis. EF has saved CD and his son from wasted experimenting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Date:
3 May 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.491)
Summary:

Thanks AWvH for his work on Justus Liebig [The life-work of Liebig (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10496F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
5 May 1876
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/19/188)
Summary:

Asking to borrow three wood blocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
5 May 1876
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10498

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
6 May [1876]
Source of text:
Nature , 11 May 1876, p. 28
Summary:

Reports seeing flowers of wild cherry bitten off in same manner as primroses [see 9418 and 9444]. In this case it was done by a squirrel, though birds also bite the flowers of the cherry-tree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gabriel-Auguste (Auguste) Daubrée
Date:
10 May 1876
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2423 A f. 67)
Summary:

Thanks AD for sending a memoir on foliation of rocks ["Expériences sur la schistosité des roches", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 82 (1876): 710–16, 798–804]. Regrets to say that it never reached him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
10 May 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.492)
Summary:

Promises to send sheets of his new book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gabriel-Auguste (Auguste) Daubrée
Date:
13 May [1876]
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2423 A f. 71)
Summary:

AD’s memoir [see 10504] has arrived at last.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
14 May 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 38 [9891])
Summary:

Book [Webb and Berthelot] has reached CD.

Sorry EH dissents from Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
15 May 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.26–30 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.26–27, letter ff.28–29, address envelope f.30))
Summary:

Discusses corrections and illustrations [for Volcanic islands and parts of South America, 2d ed. (1876)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10510F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 May 1876
Source of text:
International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625)
Summary:

Sends his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10514A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Julius Wetterhan
Date:
25 May [1876]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (Ms.Ff.D.J.Wetterhan III.2)
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 21st.

When the curious Salvia arrives, CD will have it carefully planted. Interested in seeing its flowers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11)
Summary:

Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.

James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10515F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Foster Barham Zincke
Date:
26 May [1876]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Natural Sciences collections at the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences)
Summary:

Thanks for a letter describing variation in chickens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143)
Summary:

Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.

Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10516

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 May [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493)
Summary:

Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.

Asks about the Physiological Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 14
Summary:

Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."

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