From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.
Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]
and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11148 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11149 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Summary
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156 |
To C. W. von Nägeli 27 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Die niederen Pilze (Nägeli 1877).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156F |
From W. W. Bailey 28 September 1877
Summary
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
| Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11157 |
From L. A. Errera 30 September 1877
Summary
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11160 |
From Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa 30 September 1877
Summary
CD named corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Lisbon.
| Author: | Sociedade de geographia de Lisboa |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11160A |
From R. I. Lynch [September 1877 or later]
Summary
Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1877 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.9: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11385 |
From R. I. Lynch [before 14 September 1877]
Summary
Notes the movements of leaves of Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora in response to light intensity.
| Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11415 |
To John Price 8 September [1877–80?]
Summary
Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.
Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1877-80] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13836 |
From [W. T. Thiselton-Dyer] [after 22 September 1877]
Summary
Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10750 |
From Roland Trimen 2 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11124 |
From A. R. Wallace 3 September 1877
Summary
Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B136–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11125 |
From Thomas Churton 3 September 1877
Summary
Report of child with tail and man with four nipples.
| Author: | Thomas Churton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11126 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 September [1877]
Summary
Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11127 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877]
Summary
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11128 |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 6 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for another part of Australian orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
| Date: | 6 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11130 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Errera, L. A. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Lynch, R. I. | (2) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Errera, L. A. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
| Moorsom, W. M. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Darwin, Sara | (2) |
| Sedgwick, Sara | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Churton, Thomas | (1) |
| Clark, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Nipher, F. E. | (1) |
| Nägeli, C. W. von | (1) |
| Piggot, Horatio | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
| Sociedade de geographia de Lisboa | (1) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
