From F. J. Cohn [10?] August 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10?] Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11101 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11102 |
From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877
Summary
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11103 |
From E. W. Black 13 August 1877
Summary
Encloses specimens of milk-weed with trapped insects. Indian hemp catches insects in the same way but with less success.
Author: | Evans Willson Black |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11104 |
From G. J. Romanes 13 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".
Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11105 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11106 |
From R. F. Cooke 15 August 1877
Summary
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 490 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11107 |
To Nature 15 August [1877]
Summary
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 15 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 23 August 1877, p. 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108 |
To W. H. Leggett 19 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter about Pontederia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
Date: | 19 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Redpath Museum, McGill University |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108F |
From William Ogle 21 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11109 |
To R. I. Lynch 23 August [1877]
Summary
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Date: | 23 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11110 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 August 1877
Summary
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11111 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 August 1877
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11112 |
To Giovanni Canestrini 26 August [1877]
Summary
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Date: | 26 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection), subsequently offered for sale by Marsha Malinowski (dealer), New York (https://marshamalinowski.com/press/, accessed 18 December 2020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11113 |
To T. H. Farrer 27 August [1877]
Summary
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 27 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11114 |
From Herman Semmig 27 August 1877
Summary
Sends a published diary [Das Kind, 2d ed. (1876)] in which he recorded the early growth of his first child. Hopes it may find an English translator.
Author: | Friedrich Herman (Herman) Semmig |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11115 |
From R. I. Lynch [28 August 1877]
Summary
Observations on movements of leaves of Erythrina crista-galli in green-house and out of doors.
Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11116 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 28 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11119 |
From Frederick Schwerzfeger 29 August 1877
Author: | Frederick Schwerzfeger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11120 |
To A. R. Wallace 31 August 1877
Summary
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 31 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11121 |
letter | (42) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Cohn, F. J. | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Black, E. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (7) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Cohn, F. J. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |