From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [June 1877 or later]
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1877 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 32–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10751 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
To G. H. Darwin [3 June 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10946 |
From G.J. Romanes [June 1877]
Summary
Notes on variation and selection; discussion of how selection could act to the advantage of a group but not to that of an individual within the group.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 143–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10979 |
From J. M. Rodwell 1 June 1877
Summary
Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10980 |
From P. L. Sclater 2 June 1877
Summary
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10981 |
To J. M. Rodwell 3 June 1877
Summary
Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
Date: | 3 June 1877 |
Classmark: | Phillips (dealers) (June 1995) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10981F |
To Asa Gray 4 June [1877]
Summary
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10982 |
To G. J. Romanes 5 June 1877
Summary
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 June 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10983 |
From Charles Bradlaugh 5 June 1877
Summary
Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]
Author: | Charles Bradlaugh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10984 |
To [Henry Huntsman?] 5 June [1877]
Summary
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Huntsman |
Date: | 5 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10984A |
To [Charles Roberts?] 6 June 1877
Summary
Sends six photographs of himself as a contribution to correspondent’s charity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Roberts |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections (Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10985 |
From G. J. Romanes 6 June 1877
Summary
Sends MS notes on intercrossing.
Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.
Has made a number of grafts at Kew.
Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 53; DAR 47: 139–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10986 |
From D. T. Fish 6 June 1877
Author: | David Taylor Fish |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10987 |
To Charles Bradlaugh 6 June 1877
Summary
CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Bradlaugh |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10988 |
To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
From C. F. Martins 7 June 1877
Summary
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
Author: | Charles Frédéric Martins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10990 |
To Edward Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor Cambridge University 8 June [1877]
Summary
Is honoured that the Council wish to offer a Grace to the Senate [of the University of Cambridge] conferring upon him an honorary LL.D. degree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Atkinson |
Date: | 8 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10991 |
To L. H. Morgan 9 June 1877
Summary
Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 9 June 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10992 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Atkinson, Edward | (2) |
Alglave, Émile | (1) |
Atkinson, Edward | (2) |
Bessey, C. E. | (1) |
Bianconi, G. G. | (1) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
Bradlaugh, Charles | (2) |
Busch, Otto | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Fish, D. T. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
Hoek, P. P. C. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huntsman, Henry | (1) |
John Murray | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Martinelli, A. J. | (1) |
Martins, C. F. | (1) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Roberts, Charles | (1) |
Roberts, William | (1) |
Robertson, G. C. | (2) |
Rodwell, J. M. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Thomson, C. W. | (2) |
Unidentified | (4) |
Wray, Clipson | (1) |