From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
Summary
A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
To Agricultural Gazette 22 March 1877
Summary
Evidence for inheritance of constitutional diseases like scrofula so good that it seems rash to breed tainted animal.
Experiments given in Cross and self-fertilisation show that evil of inbreeding follows from near relations possessing closely similar constitution.
Size and vigour increased by breeding plants and animals from ancestors that lived some generations under different conditions of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Agricultural Gazette |
Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Agricultural Gazette, 2 April 1877, pp. 324–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10910 |
From Fritz Müller 25 March 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for new [2d] edition of Orchids.
Mentions some observations on dimorphic plants.
Reports on a third species of Pontederia [see Forms of flowers, p. 185].
Describes some unusual grasses.
Reports rumours from southern Brazil concerning the existence of a gigantic subterranean animal.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10911 |
To Ernst Krause 25 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for EK’s book [Werden und Vergehen (1876)].
Regrets he cannot write for EK’s journal, but his son, Francis, may do so.
Suggests EK as editor urge on readers [of Kosmos] the investigation of the causes of variability; why, for instance, do wild Pampas cattle change colour when domesticated? Thinks experiments and observations on recently domesticated animals and cultivated plants would throw light on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 25 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10912 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for specimens [of insects].
Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.
Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10913 |
To J. V. Carus 26 March 1877
Summary
Had found out his error [use of "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" in Cross and self-fertilisation] some timeago.
Is now writing on cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all his old materials on plants. JVC will then have a rest from his labours of translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10914 |
From William Saville-Kent 26 March 1877
Summary
Proposes to construct an aquarium on Jersey and wants to use CD’s name in support of the project.
Author: | William Saville-Kent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10915 |
To W. R. S. Ralston 27 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for the reviews, particularly the one in the Times.
CD will be pleased to receive Mr Wallace.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ralston Shedden-Ralston |
Date: | 27 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (Inserted in Bulwer-Lytton, E. R., Life of Lord Lytton, fol. p. 244, RB 131334 v. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10916 |
To William Saville-Kent 28 March [1877]
Summary
Regrets he cannot permit his name to be used to support WSK’s aquarium project. If WSK decides to set up an aquarium solely for scientific purposes he would consider subscribing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Saville-Kent |
Date: | 28 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10917 |
From Asa Gray 30 March 1877
Summary
Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918 |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To Leonard Darwin 31 March 1877
Summary
Is "awfully glad" at LD’s appointment [as an instructor at Chatham].
Thinks LD should start reading chemistry "though reading does not do much".
Reports scientific work of George and Frank Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10919 |
From W. E. Darwin [25 March? 1877]
Summary
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar? 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922F |
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