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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

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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

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Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.

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]

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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

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Asks for a loan.

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
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