From Francis Galton 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends packets of seeds of peas of different sizes [i.e., weights] for CD’s experiments; identifies size of the seeds that produced them. FG is experimenting "in the same direction" and is curious how his results will compare with CD’s.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B3–B11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10395 |
To R. F. Cooke 16 September 1876
Summary
Convinced Cross and self fertilisation is of permanent value, though an extremely dry, special subject. Thinks it will sell for many years and suggests a printing of 1500 copies. Asks that a good indexer be found and put to work. Appleton has agreed to publish it
and Orchids, [2d ed.], if Murray’s will supply stereotype plates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 16 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 308–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10603 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 September [1876]
Summary
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10622F |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
From J. H. Comstock 4 June 1880
Summary
Summarises points of interest in his Report upon cotton insects [U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology (1879)].
Author: | John Henry Comstock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12621 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 September [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10625 |
To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877]
Summary
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27–8 May [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10973 |
From R. F. Cooke 21 February 1876
Summary
Murray wishes to settle payments for Descent [2d ed., 11th thousand]. Over 500 copies of the 1000 printed have been sold.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 482 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10404 |
To Nature 15 August [1877]
Summary
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 15 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 23 August 1877, p. 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
From R. F. Cooke 23 February 1876
Summary
Sends cheque for Descent [2d ed., 1875 issue].
Has sent corrections to printer for Climbing plants
and Origin. Has ordered to print: 1250 copies of Origin,
500 of Climbing plants,
and 1000 of Naturalist’s voyage [Journal of researches].
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 483 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10407 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
From Julius von Haast 16 December 1876
Summary
Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.
Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10722 |
To W. E. Darwin 24 [July 1874]
Summary
Arrangements for the visit to Southampton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 24 [July 1874] |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 25, 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560F |
From F. E. Abbot to W. E. Darwin 19 January 1876
Summary
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.7: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362G |
To J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
To G. W. Norman 15 September [1876]
Summary
Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warde Norman |
Date: | 15 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.497) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10599 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
From Francis Darwin [1 September 1875 or later]
Summary
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Sept 1875 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153F |
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