From Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Author: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10336 |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
From Adolphe de Stillfried [1877?]
Author: | Adolphe de Stillfried |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10744 |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 17 January 1877]
Summary
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B55–8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10757 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [early 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
From Thomas Belt [before 18] January 1877
Summary
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18] Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10761 |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From Arthur Mellersh 1 January 1877
Summary
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Author: | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10767 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
From Julius Sachs 6 January 1877
Summary
Sends photographs of himself.
Thanks CD for book [Cross and self-fertilisation]
and Francis Darwin for publications.
Author: | Julius Sachs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10772 |
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Allman, G. J. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
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Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Fuchs, Sigmund | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Graham, C. C. | (1) |
Grugeon, Alfred | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hodgskin, George | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Hyatt, Alpheus | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Leggett, W. H. | (1) |
Malm, A. W. | (1) |
Mellersh, Arthur | (1) |
Murphy, J. J. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
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Rawson, Arthur | (1) |
Reade, T. M. | (1) |
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Spratt, T. A. B. | (1) |
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Stoneham, Allen | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Tracy, G. M. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Zacharias, Otto | (1) |
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Galton, Francis | (2) |
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