To W. H. Leggett 22 January 1877
Summary
Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10808 |
To J. V. Carus 22 January 1877
Summary
Thanks JVC for errata [in Cross and self-fertilisation]
and especially for interesting and amusing notes on expression. Will use them if a new edition [of Expression] is needed, but Murray has printed too many copies of first edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 158–159) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10809 |
From George Paul 22 January 1877
Summary
Suggests CD write to Mr Fisher, a nurseryman, on his experiments with crossing varieties of holly.
Author: | George Paul |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10810 |
To Asa Gray 23 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AG for card about Pontederia.
Asks for specimens of Phlox subulata and Gilia aggregata to check for dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10811 |
From J. J. Murphy 23 January 1877
Summary
Requests permission to use illustrations from F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin in the new edition [of his Habit and intelligence, 2d ed. (1879)].
Author: | Joseph John Murphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10812 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
From Hermann Müller 25 January 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for calling attention to a "considerable error" in his observations on Hottonia fertility [in Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 52.]
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10815 |
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 E. A. Darwin 27 January [1877]
Summary
Carlyle hoped CD had not been annoyed by that forged letter, which was the reverse of his opinion. [Enclosed is a published extract, said to be taken from a Thomas Carlyle letter, which denies CD’s intellect and regrets his influence.]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11333 |
To the Post Office Savings Bank 1 January [1877?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Post Office Savings Bank |
Date: | 1 Jan [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12967 |
From Marcellin de Bonnal [1877]
Author: | Antoine-Marcellin (Marcellin) de Bonnal |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13779 |
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