From Hugo Schneider 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Author: | Hugo Schneider |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10838 |
To Francis Galton 11 February [1877]
Summary
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 11 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10839 |
To A. A. van Bemmelen 12 February 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841 |
From Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 12 February 1877
Summary
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Author: | Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841A |
To Alpheus Hyatt 13 February 1877
Summary
Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].
Discusses polymorphic species.
Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.
Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.
But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10842 |
To Karl von Scherzer 13 February 1877
Summary
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10843 |
From Lawson Tait 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844 |
To Ferdinand von Hochstetter 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends thanks to Anthropological Society for sending birthday greetings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand von Hochstetter |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (April 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844A |
To Richard Kippist 15 February 1877
Summary
Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10845 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 15 February 1877
Summary
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10846 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10847 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877
Summary
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10848 |
To Emil Rade 16 February 1877
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Rade |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10849 |
To August Weismann 17 February 1877
Summary
Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 17 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 349 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10850 |
To Asa Gray 18 February [1877]
Summary
Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].
Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10851 |
To J. V. Carus 19 February 1877
Summary
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10852 |
To Édouard Heckel 19 February 1877
Summary
Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10852F |
To Down Friendly Society 19 February 1877
Summary
CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down Friendly Society |
Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 138: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10853 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 19 February [1877]
Summary
Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 19 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 24 February 1877, p. 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10854 |
From Franz von Rekowsky 20 February 1877
Summary
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
Author: | Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 119a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10855 |
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