From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1877?]
Summary
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Apr 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A44, A71–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10343 |
From Edward Harris April 1877
Summary
Wishes to bring CD his trained cockatoo.
Author: | Edward Harris |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10920 |
From Hermann Müller 2 April 1877
Summary
Is pleased that CD agrees with HM’s suggestions and criticisms of CD’s work. Will undertake experiments with Viola tricolor seeds to see if they produce both large- and small-flowered plants.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10921 |
From W. D. Fox 3 April [1877]
Summary
Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923 |
From W. E. Darwin 4 April 1877
Summary
Arrangements about a purchase of land.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10923F |
From John Colby 9 April 1877
Summary
Notes on competition among tree species in South Wales.
Author: | John Colby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10924 |
From Johannes Schön 10 April 1877
Summary
In the name of a student science club, asks whether CD’s theory of evolution applies to mental as well as physical characteristics of men and animals. Asks whether animals have free-will like humans. Do animals have a sense that humans lack?
Author: | Johannes Schön |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10925 |
From John Scott 12 April 1877
Summary
Comments on various species of Lagerstroemia.
In the series of opium poppy intercrosses made at CD’s suggestion, JS has learned that the reason they failed to intercross was the absence of insects at the period of their flowering.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 207–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10928 |
From G. N. de Stoppelaar 14 April 1877
Summary
CD made a Foreign Member of the Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.
Author: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10928A |
From H. N. Ridley 15 April 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of Saxifraga tridactylites with insects caught by it. Asks if colour of leaves attracts insects.
Author: | Henry Nicholas Ridley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10930 |
From G. H. Darwin 19 April 1877
Summary
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10933 |
From Thomas Howie 20 April 1877
Summary
Offers key to CD’s theory: fern roots are like little grubs.
Claims to have crossed the Australian Alps where Dr Müller [Ferdinand von Mueller?] failed.
Author: | Thomas Howie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10934 |
From Otto Zacharias 21 April 1877
Summary
Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10936 |
From Robert McLachlan 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
Author: | Robert McLachlan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10939 |
From J. W. Judd 24 April 1877
Summary
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
Author: | John Wesley Judd |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10940 |
From C. G. Semper 26 April 1877
Summary
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10942 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 April 1877
Summary
JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 487 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10927 |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Colby, John | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Harris, Edward | (1) |
Howie, Thomas | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Judd, J. W. | (1) |
McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Ridley, H. N. | (1) |
Schön, Johannes | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Semper, C. G. | (1) |
Stoppelaar, G. N. de | (1) |
Zacharias, Otto | (1) |