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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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.
Sends autograph.
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
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.
JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.
Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.
Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member
Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].
Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.
Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.
Has signed enclosure [Royal Society nomination for McLachlan] with pleasure.
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.
Inquires whether insectivorous habit in plants supplements or replaces the normal method of plant nutrition.
Asks for identification of a Cineraria which is self-sterile.
Fritz Müller’s letter on Cecropia [see 10384].
Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.
Responds to CD’s request for the names of species from which Cineraria varieties supplied to him have sprung. [Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 335 n.]
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].