From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 37–8
Summary:
Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hope Elizabeth (Dot) Wedgwood
Date:
[28 May 1876]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 143)
Summary:
Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.
Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 58
Summary:
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 May [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493)
Summary:
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emm
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 135
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 [May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 14
Summary:
Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 12
Summary:
Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Nikolai Petrovich ("Nicolas") Wagner
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 335-336
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 1
Summary:
Has sent off Bulls Horn to Kew; has sent hamper to CD; is preparing drawings for his presentation at the Linnean Society; asks after William, and hopes to be able to come to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 53
Summary:
His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.
Sends Cambridge news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
[after May 1876]
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks for PPCH’s ["Entwicklungsgeschichte der Entomostraken, pt 1: Embryologie von Balanus", Niederl. Arch. Zool. 3 (1876–7): 47–82].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project