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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[before 1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 854
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[May 1876 – July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 882
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 24
Summary:
Good news about Frankland. Expecting burnt earth. Almost finished the Foodbodies Paper on Acacia. He and Amy are learning to use the new printing machine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 52
Summary:
Writes of his "geo-mathematical" work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 859
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 860
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1876
Source of text:
CD’s copy of Volcanic islands (CUL, CCA 24.14); tipped in at back
Summary:
Informs CD which woodblocks of illustrations to the Geology of "Beagle" are in their possession and which are missing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 159: 30
Summary:
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 23
Summary:
Has read letter from Jemmy. Amy has been practicing on the printing machine. Fritz has come back from the Vicar of Orpington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Bolander
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
Bolander correspondence, University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley, California
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Thomas Laxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 159–63
Summary:
Responds to CD’s query as to the duration of crossed varieties of peas. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 305.]
Contributor:
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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
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
From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 287–8
Summary:
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 38
Summary:
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project