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From:
Nemo
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 13
Summary:

A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1876–7]
Source of text:
DAR 109: B119
Summary:

Notes on various instances of dimorphic stamens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 90
Summary:

Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 92
Summary:

Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
[before 3 January 1876]
Source of text:
Zacharias 1876 , pp. 19–20
Summary:

In an article in Das Ausland, Zacharias explains CD’s objections to a theory of heredity outlined by Marcus Cohen. The text is an excerpt from CD’s letter to Zacharias on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
4 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37)
Summary:

Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 481
Summary:

At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.

Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 50
Summary:

Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 144–5
Summary:

Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 162: 33
Summary:

Has confirmed CD’s observations on Drosera.

Asks whether CD agrees that it is "no longer a fact" that the bladders of Utricularia vulgaris enable the plant to become lighter for fecundation and heavier when that act is accomplished. Plans to undertake further observations, under very high-powered microscopes, of mechanism of digestion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 230
Summary:

Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles O’Shaughnessy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 173: 40
Summary:

He has confuted Descent.

Enclosures announce his cures of potato blight, epilepsy, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
10 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Dallinger
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS CG/u/3)
Summary:

CD has read all of WHD’s and J. J. Drysdale’s papers [on spontaneous generation, monads, and the origin of life] and finds them the best work on the subject.

The function of bladders in Utricularia is not to float the plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas William Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 170
Summary:

Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:

Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 66
Summary:

Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sven Ludvig (Sven) Lovén
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Jan 1876]
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Sven Lovéns arkiv, Utgående brev, vol. B1:5, nr 26, s 331-333)
Summary:

Has sent his paper on Echinoidea [see 10373] as a token of his veneration. He tried to address the confusion in knowledge about the different parts of the exoskeleton of the Echinodermata by tracing certain relations of homology not previously noticed. Much more work is required.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bates Blow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 201
Summary:

Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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