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DCP-LETT-10455

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 8
Summary:

F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10282

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:

JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10456

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 133
Summary:

Sends some potato plants and tubers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10458

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 134
Summary:

JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for information he needs for the German translation [of Coral reefs], including correct titles of reference books and the name of a voyager.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10458F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 59)
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10459

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
20 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.21-25 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.21-22, letter ff.23-24, address envelope f.25))
Summary:

J. V. Carus wishes to translate Volcanic islands and South America into German. Can Smith and Elder provide copies?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
20 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 153: 3
Summary:

Grieves over poor account of her health. Emma and Henrietta are also ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A41–2
Summary:

The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
21 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 94
Summary:

Does not think that publishing his letters as advertisement [for potato experiments] would help JT’s cause, so CD cannot give permission.

Regrets that he has neither the time nor health to undertake crossing experiments with JT’s specimens. Discusses crossing varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
21 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society
Summary:

Congratulations on finding water-lily.

Thanks for Pinguicula specimens.

Asks for reference to her article on Utricularia [see 10508].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 155162)
Summary:

Is obliged for Carneri’s new work, Eine psychologische Studie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/44)
Summary:

Fondly remembers the days he spent with TCE.

Doubts the Canadian skeleton will have anything to do with man.

Returns extracts.

Samuel Haughton is a bitter opponent.

CD now working on plants;

doubts he will ever return to working on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 43127)
Summary:

Discussing a reprint of South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10466

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 135
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10467

From:
Heinrich Jacob (Heinrich) Goldschmidt; Eduard Porges von Portheim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 60
Summary:

Two student adherents of his theory correct an error in Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 152–153)
Summary:

Answers queries concerning errata in Coral reefs.

All copies of Volcanic islands are sold. Smith, Elder & Co. want to bring out a new edition, but CD is resolved not to look at a single proof.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10469

From:
William Hugh Patterson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 174: 28
Summary:

Observations on expression and variation in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
24 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 202: 84
Summary:

The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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