From A. W. Malm 26 January 1877
Summary
Sends his papers [unspecified].
Linnaeus was a "Darwinist" because he placed the simians in the genus Homo.
Author: | August Wilhelm Malm |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10816 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 January 1877
Summary
JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.
Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].
Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 77–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10817 |
From G. J. Allman 27 January 1877
Summary
On Royal Society Council’s deliberations on awards. GJA argues that older men should be given first claim lest they die neglected; CD had stressed importance of encouraging younger men.
Author: | George James Allman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10818 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
To Pietro Siciliani 28 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for a copy of PS’s Critica nella filosofia zoologica del XIX secolo: dialoghi di Pietro Siciliani … (Naples: Cav. Antonio Morano Editore, 1876).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Pietro Siciliani |
Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Siciliani 1877, pp. 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819F |
From J. B. Saint-Lager 30 January 1877
Summary
Sends CD parts of the Annales [Soc. Bot. Lyon] in response to his request for a particular article.
States that, despite CD’s work, he does not believe that any plants, including insectivorous ones, can utilise organic material, and that they live solely on mineral elements in the soil and air.
Author: | Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10820 |
From C. C. Graham 30 January 1877
Author: | Christopher Columbus Graham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10821 |
To G. S. Ffinden 31 January 1877
Summary
Encloses £25 contribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
Date: | 31 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 12 (EH 88206064) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10823 |
From Karl Beger [12 February 1877]
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10824 |
From Thomas Palmer February 1877
Summary
Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.
Author: | Thomas Palmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10825 |
From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877
Summary
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
Author: | Emil Rade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16] Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10826 |
To J. W. Judd [after 1 February 1877]
Summary
Tells of his pleasure and surprise at reading JWJ’s article ["Darwin’s ""Geological observations"" ", Nature 15 (1877): 289–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
Date: | [after 1 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10828 |
To H. W. Bates 6 February [1877]
Summary
Requests return of August Weismann’s letter which refers to eggs.
Curious about the drawing [of the caterpillar? See 10780].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 6 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10829 |
From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
From A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth 6 February 1877
Summary
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
Author: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10831 |
From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Author: | David Taylor Fish |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 February 1877
Summary
Would like to see the photographs.
Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834F |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
To T. M. Reade 9 February 1877
Summary
Comments on TMR’s essay ["Geological time"].
It is monstrous that P. G. Tait should say that earth is less than ten million years old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10836 |
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
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