To [Charles Roberts?] 6 June 1877
Summary
Sends six photographs of himself as a contribution to correspondent’s charity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Roberts |
| Date: | 6 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections (Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10985 |
From Lawson Tait 13 June [1877]
Summary
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999 |
To Rudolph Ludwig [16 July 1877]
Summary
Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig |
| Date: | [16 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11055 |
To Friedrich Ludwig 1 August 1877
Summary
Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Ludwig |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11087 |
To Raphael Meldola 19 October [1877]
Summary
Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11189 |
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 G. H. Darwin 24 November [1877]
Summary
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11251 |
To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
From R. F. Cooke 2 July 1877
Summary
"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 489 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11031 |
From R. F. Cooke 15 August 1877
Summary
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 490 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11107 |
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 W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
From G. H. Darwin 28 May 1877
Summary
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10974 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Summary
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 4 July 1877
Summary
Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11035 |
From John Brigg 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
| Author: | John Brigg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11037 |
To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
To L. A. Errera 18 September 1877
Summary
Agrees to look over MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11144 |
From Edward Atkinson 25 October 1877
Summary
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]
| Author: | Edward Atkinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209A |
To Edward Atkinson 27 October 1877
Summary
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Atkinson |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11211 |
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