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 |
To Josef Kořenský 2 April 1877
Summary
"Charles Darwin Down, Kent April 2d. 1877; With Mr Darwin’s compliments. – "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josef Kořenský |
Date: | 2 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Museum of Czech Literature/Památník národního písemnictví (fond Varia Literární archiv) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922 |
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 |
To H. N. Ridley 16 April [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nicholas Ridley |
Date: | 16 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10931 |
To G. N. de Stoppelaar 17 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for membership of Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
Date: | 17 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10931F |
To G. H. Lewes 18 April 1877
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 18 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10932 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
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 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
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