From Lawson Tait 16 January 1877
Summary
Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10795 |
To Wilhelm Rimpau 16 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10796 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10797 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10798 |
To J. V. Carus 17 January 1877
Summary
JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.
Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10799 |
To Lawson Tait 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10800 |
From A. R. Wallace 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B132–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10801 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1877
Summary
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 74–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10802 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 January 1877
Summary
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10803 |
To Thomas Belt 18 January 1877
Summary
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10804 |
From Arthur Rawson 19 January 1877
Summary
Has observed the scarcity of humble-bees and subsequently of holly berries this year. But does not think humble-bees ever visit holly flowers, however plentiful they may be.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10805 |
From Thomas Belt 20 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s frank criticism of his views.
Hooker advises him to apply for aid to work out glaciation between Pyrenees and Alps.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10806 |
From J. V. Carus 20 January 1877
Summary
Lists misprints in Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends observations and references relevant to a new edition of Expression.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10807 |
To W. H. Leggett 22 January 1877
Summary
Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10808 |
To J. V. Carus 22 January 1877
Summary
Thanks JVC for errata [in Cross and self-fertilisation]
and especially for interesting and amusing notes on expression. Will use them if a new edition [of Expression] is needed, but Murray has printed too many copies of first edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 158–159) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10809 |
From George Paul 22 January 1877
Summary
Suggests CD write to Mr Fisher, a nurseryman, on his experiments with crossing varieties of holly.
Author: | George Paul |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10810 |
To Asa Gray 23 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AG for card about Pontederia.
Asks for specimens of Phlox subulata and Gilia aggregata to check for dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10811 |
From J. J. Murphy 23 January 1877
Summary
Requests permission to use illustrations from F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin in the new edition [of his Habit and intelligence, 2d ed. (1879)].
Author: | Joseph John Murphy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10812 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
From Hermann Müller 25 January 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for calling attention to a "considerable error" in his observations on Hottonia fertility [in Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 52.]
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10815 |
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