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DCP-LETT-10425

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 177: 218
Summary:

Discusses chemical tests for the detection of glucose and cane-sugar in solution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10426

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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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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-10433

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-10434

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:
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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10436

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].

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