From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 254
Summary:
Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.
Contributor:
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From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 23
Summary:
L. H. Morgan has plagiarised his and Henry Maine’s works for years.
Encourages George Darwin to continue his work on consanguineous marriages.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 255
Summary:
Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 November 1876
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1901
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Frigyes Medveczky
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 41
Summary:
Writing under the name of Friedrich von Bärenbach, FM sends his paper on J. G. Herder as a precursor of Darwin’s theory [Herder als Vorgänger Darwins (1877)]; hopes CD will acknowledge him as such.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 205
Summary:
Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
12 November [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.52
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 191
Summary:
Thanks for sheets of new book. Intends to talk about it at a scientific social club meeting.
Is amused to read CD’s criticisms of his own style, as in the U. S. it is spoken of as being as faultless as his temper. Corrects a reference.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
13 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 347
Summary:
Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 69–70
Summary:
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin family
Date:
14 November [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 311
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Peter Henderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 140
Summary:
Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.
Contributor:
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 168: 82
Summary:
Thanks for new edition of Coral reefs [1874]
and Volcanic islands [1876].
His travels and studies confirm CD’s explanation of the banded structure of lavas.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
16 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 331
Summary:
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
Contributor:
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From:
Horace Pearce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 174: 33
Summary:
Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 202: 126
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion of a proposed protest [unspecified] and asks whether he will sign it.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 253
Summary:
Finds he does not have a duplicate of the Japanese natural history book. Sends other volumes of grotesque pictures.
He can show F. W. Hutton erred in calling Peripatus novae zelandiae self-fertilising; suspects J. F. Bullar has made a similar error on parasitic Isopoda. They both mistook spermatophores for testes.
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
18 November 1876
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 346–7
Summary:
Agrees with CD that Charles Voysey’s "Protest" would not do any good.
Has less sympathy with half-hearted sentimental school than with thorough-going orthodoxy. On theological dogmas, benevolence of the Creator.
[Encloses copy of his letter to Voysey.]
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 105
Summary:
Thanks CD for [2d English edition of] Volcanic islands and South America [1876].
Is at work on Cross and self-fertilisation. Asks about some doubtful points.
Contributor:
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