From R. W. Griffiths December 1877
Summary
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
Author: | Richard William Griffiths |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11263 |
To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877]
Summary
Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) Moleschott |
Date: | [2 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Laage 1980, p. 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267A |
To R. A. Vance 4 December 1877
Summary
Thanks RAV for valuable letter [11232]. CD too ignorant of anatomy to form a decided opinion, but is inclined to attribute spiral folds to reversion and the valves to partial abortion of the fold. Asks RAV to verify by examining lower intestine of an opossum for the structure. If missing he would hesitate to allude to reversion. If RAV can prove the nature of these remnants it would be a conclusion of much interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reuben Aleshire Vance |
Date: | 4 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11269 |
From T. A. Edison 7 December 1877
Author: | Thomas Alva Edison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11271 |
From John Michels 9 December 1877
Summary
Sends a drawing [missing] of alleged fossil man found in Colorado. JM is certain it is a hoax perpetrated by P. T. Barnum. It was designed to conform to CD’s well-known views of man’s ancestor.
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11272 |
From A. W. Rimpau 10 December 1877
Summary
Sends his paper ["Die selbst-sterilität des Roggens", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6 (1877): 1073–6] on self-sterility in Secale cereale. AWR was wrong in claiming Beta vulgaris was perfectly self-sterile.
Reports results of crossing wheat varieties. In the first generation offspring are always uniform; some are intermediate, some resemble one parent. In the second generation, on the contrary, he got a diversity of parental and intermediate forms.
Author: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11273 |
To W. W. Bailey 10 December [1877]
Summary
"Many thanks for the specimens which will be very useful whenever a new Edition is required."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whitman Bailey |
Date: | 10 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Alfred Williams Anthony collection: box 7, folder 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11274 |
To E. H. Sieveking 11 December 1877
Summary
Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Henry Sieveking |
Date: | 11 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11275 |
To C. H. Merriam [11 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks him for sending his Birds of Connecticut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
Date: | [11 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11276A |
From M. T. Masters [13 December 1877]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11279 |
From Gaston de Saporta 16 December 1877
Summary
He has heard CD is about to be elected to the Académie des Sciences.
Cross and self-fertilisation, with its emphasis on insect pollination, helps explain the problem he has worked on for so long: i.e., the rapid diversification of angiosperms in the fossil record occurs in conjunction with the diversification of insects.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11281 |
From J. C. Conybeare 17 December 1877
Summary
JCC and his young daughter have observed that blossoms of Drosera rotundifolia open in afternoon, which contradicts Forms of flowers.
Author: | John Charles Conybeare |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11282 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
To A. W. Rimpau 13 December [1877]
Summary
Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 13 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11284 |
To Axel Key 20 December 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude and admiration for AK’s and M. G. Retzius’s Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes (2 vols. 1875–6).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Axel Henrik (Axel) Key |
Date: | 20 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11284A |
From A. W. Malm 21 December 1877
Author: | August Wilhelm Malm |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11285 |
From J. V. Carus 23 December 1877
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11286 |
To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
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