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To G. J. Romanes   9 August [1877]

Summary

Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].

Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.

Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus

and his own experiments on Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  9 Aug [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11096

To James Croll   9 August 1877

Summary

Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Croll
Date:  9 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 143: 356
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11097

To Theodor von Heldreich   9 August 1877

Summary

Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
Date:  9 Aug 1877
Classmark:  DAR 145: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11098