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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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:
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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:
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From:
Moritz Schiff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 86: B8–9
Summary:
Has repeated his observations and experiments used in Insectivorous plants; finds them sound.
Revises his reference to production of pepsin.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[9 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 132
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 68
Summary:
Sends Die Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876]. Comments on CD’s theory of Pangenesis. Explains his own theory of Perigenesis.
Returns Webb and Berthelot, Îles Canaries; Géographie botanique [1840].
Describes work on 3d ed. of Anthropogenie.
Contributor:
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From:
James Murphy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 323
Summary:
A reader of Descent offers two items: 1. Masters observed a pericardial fold in humans and other mammals which is a vestigial left superior vena cava;
2. JM suggests the frenum of the human penis became necessary for vis-à-vis copulation when man became bipedal.
Contributor:
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From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 179
Summary:
Sends her article on Utricularia ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7].
Proposes to write on Sarracenia ["Carnivorous plants of Florida", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 53 (1876): 546–8, 710–14].
Contributor:
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From:
Ebenezer Norman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 77: 156–8
Summary:
Sends his copies of CD’s MS of Cross and self-fertilisation and calls attention to errors in addition.
Contributor:
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