To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Summary
"Frank has sent the cards here."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
From Robert McLachlan 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
| Author: | Robert McLachlan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10939 |
To W. C. Marshall 20 [April 1877]
Summary
Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
| Date: | 20 [Apr 1877] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10939F |
From J. W. Judd 24 April 1877
Summary
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
| Author: | John Wesley Judd |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940 |
From Francis Darwin to G. N. de Stoppelaar 25 April 1877
Summary
Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940F |
To Otto Zacharias 26 April 1877
Summary
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10941 |
From C. G. Semper 26 April 1877
Summary
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10942 |
To G. C. Robertson 27 April 1877
Summary
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10943 |
To G. O. Sars 29 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georg Ossian Sars |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 233: Letters to Georg Ossian Sars) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945 |
To C. G. Semper 30 April 1877
Summary
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Date: | 30 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (March 1994); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945F |
To Vasile Conta 29 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vasile Conta |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Biblioteca Academiei Române (Manuscripts: Vasile Conta: Regulamente: A.2882) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945G |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Colby, John | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Stoppelaar, G. N. de | (2) |
| Conta, Vasile | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Stoppelaar, G. N. de | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
