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From:
Abbot, F. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
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
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From:
Alexander Paterson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 April 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alexander Paterson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 May 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 May 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 333-334
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
B. J. Edwards & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 163: 2
Summary:
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
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:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 26
Summary:
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 24
Summary:
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14] Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 25
Summary:
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Myron Leslie Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 97
Summary:
Sends J. H. Baxter, Statistics, medical and anthropological [2 vols. (1875)]; asks CD’s opinion on correlation of stature with certain types of diseases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 145
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 166
Summary:
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 167
Summary:
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bates Blow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 201
Summary:
Reports on the tendency of the normally fruitless Convolvulus arvensis, to form fruit when roots are cut and plant is in danger of dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Edward Simonds Boulger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 258
Summary:
Is engaged in translating Hermann Müller’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Has observed Sphinx moths on Petunia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Brehmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 285–6
Summary:
Discusses geographic distribution of tuberculosis and possible explanations for disease-free areas and populations.
Does not think a local population with some distinct physiological character can properly be designated as a race. Thinks local conditions, not natural selection, responsible for such characters. Ernst Haeckel agrees. Asks CD’s opinion.
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
