From S. B. J. Skertchly 27 February 1878
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his memoir on the fenland [Geology of the fenland (1877)].
Outlines the results of his recent researches into the geological history of man, the development of Palaeolithic culture, the occurrence of Palaeolithic remains in the boulder-clays of eastern England, and their relation to glacial and inter-glacial periods.
Author: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11379 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … memoir on the fenland [ Geology of the fenland (1877)]. Outlines the results of his recent …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Dawkins, William Boyd. 1877. On the mammal-fauna of the …
- … caves of Creswell Crags. [Read 11 April 1877. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological …
- … Society 33: 589–612. Geikie, James. 1877. The great ice age and its relation to the …
- … s Geology of the fenland ( Skertchly 1877 ), part of the Geological Survey of Great …
- … to the antiquity of man 2d ed. ( Geikie 1877 , pp. 536–46). Skertchly updated his work on …
- … see Lartet and Christy 1875 and Dawkins 1877 ; for the controversy surrounding the …
- … Press. Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah. 1877. Memoirs of the geological survey. England …
- … in their letters to Nature , 21 June 1877, pp. 141–2. Both letters mentioned Andrew …
- … views. Further correspondence about the matter appeared in Nature , 28 June 1877, pp. …
- … 162–3, and 5 July 1877, p. 182; for more on the dispute, see O’Connor 2007 , pp. 63–5. …
- … were pre- or interglacial (see Geikie 1877 , p. 565); CD regarded Alfred Russel Wallace as …
- … C. Darwin and Wallace 1858). See Skertchly 1877 , p. 220. Périgord is a former province of …
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … on sexual selection in butterflies [ Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24]. Is forwarding material on …
- … stridulans ", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD. …
- … Meldola, 1 January [1878] . Meldola dated it 1877 in error. See letter to Raphael Meldola, …
- … 1 January [1878] and n. 2. The October 1877 issue of Kosmos contained the second part of …
- … Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 13 September 1877 . James Wood-Mason’ …
- … s note on stridulation in Mygale stridulans ( Wood-Mason 1877 ) appeared in …
- … the December 1877 issue of Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ; the …
- … Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Wood-Mason, James. 1877. Note on Mygale …
- … stridulans . [Read 5 September 1877. ] Transactions …
- … of the Entomological Society of London (1877): 281–2. …
- … 1876) in his letter to CD of 20 October [1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25). The translation …
From W. C. Williamson 19 January 1878
Summary
Insectivorous plants.
Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11326 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … plant from the Carboniferous; Lesquereux 1877 , p. 172). Gaston de Saporta described a …
- … University Press. 1985–. Lesquereux, Leo. 1877. Land plants, recently discovered in the …
- … Silurian rocks of the United States. [Read 19 October 1877. ] Proceedings …
- … of the American Philosophical Society 17 (1877–8): 163–73. Williamson, William Crawford. …
- … In 1877, Williamson had sent CD specimens showing that in its early stages, Drosera …
- … leaved sundew; Correspondence vol. 25, letters to W. C. Williamson, 22 October [1877] and …
- … 24 October [1877] , and letter from W. …
- … C. Williamson, 23 October 1877 ). Francis Darwin’s paper ‘Experiments on the nutrition of …
- … Williamson, 20 September 1878 . In Lesquereux 1877 , Leo Lesquereux described a number of …
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Bibliography Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1877–8. Lectures on the infective processes …
- … of disease. British Medical Journal , 22 December 1877, pp. …
- … 879–81; 29 December 1877, pp. 913–15; 5 January 1878, pp. 1–2; 12 January 1878, pp. 45–7; …
- … 25, letter from F. J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 . Cohn had sent CD the third and last issue …
- … preserving and photographing bacteria; Koch 1877 ). It is not known when John Scott Burdon …
- … and assisted with an experiment in October 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25, letter from F. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Koch, Robert. 1877. Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren …
- … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 ), and he reproduced figures from some of Koch’s photographs …
- … processes of disease’ ( Burdon Sanderson 1877–8 ; for the figures, see British Medical …
- … anthrax. In his letter of 31 December 1877 , Cohn had critiqued Francis Darwin’s paper ‘On …
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … those Gray and CD described; see A. Gray 1877 and letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … Bibliography Cook, Joseph. 1877. Boston Monday lectures. Biology, with preludes on current …
- … with preludes on current events ( J. Cook 1877 ) appeared in the New Englander 37 (1878): …
- … evolution rather than CD’s (see J. Cook 1877 , pp. 1–32). For CD’s comment on the review, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Meehan, Thomas. 1875. Are insects any …
- … the Advancement of Science 24: 243–51. Meehan, Thomas. 1877. Darwin on the fertilization …
- … of flowers. Penn Monthly , June 1877, pp. 463–71. Movement in plants : The power of …
- … Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 November 1877 ). For a previous discussion between Gray and …
- … married Sara Sedgwick , an American, in 1877; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ) and Meehan’s earlier paper on the role of …
- … vol. 25, letter to Thomas Meehan, 5 July [1877] , and Correspondence vol. 23, letter to …
- … Müller, 26 October 1875 . In the summer of 1877, Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray , had …
From Thomas Meehan 28 April [1878]
Summary
Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.
Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10944 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Wood, …
- … Thomas Fanning. 1877. A paper on the insectivorous plants of the Wilmington regions. …
- … Daily Review (Wilmington, N.C. ), 8 May 1877, p. [4]. …
- … Germantown | Philadelphia, P.a. April 28 1877 Mr. Charles Darwin, My Dear Sir,— Though …
- … letter published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club , December 1877 (see n. 3, …
- … below). Meehan evidently wrote 1877 in error. Meehan enclosed a copy of Thomas Fanning …
- … the Wilmington regions’, which had appeared in the Wilmington Daily Review , 8 May 1877 ( …
- … Wood 1877 ). CD’s copy is in DAR 226.2: 168. …
- … of the Torrey Botanical Club , December 1877, p. 189: However, it is well to recognize the …
To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 18 September 1863, pp. 281–2. Cook, Joseph. 1877. Boston Monday lectures. Biology, with …
- … vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . See A. Gray 1878a , pp. 67–8, and Forms …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Hildebrand, Friedrich. 1864. Experimente …
- … und seine Wirkung auf die Naturzüchtung der Blumen. Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 11–25, 128–140. …
- … Darwin married Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). For CD’ …
- … vol. 25, letter from Asa Gray, 10 June 1877 . Thomas Meehan’s comments were in fact …
- … of the Torrey Botanical Club , December 1877, p. 189. There is a lightly annotated copy of …
- … Cook’s lectures on biology ( J. Cook 1877 ) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL ([A. …
- … a friend, appeared in The Times , 17 January 1877, p. 5, having originally appeared in the …
- … 25, letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] and n. 5). See letter to Hermann Müller, 1 …
- … than two months travelling together in the United States in 1877; see Correspondence vol. …
- … 25, letter from Asa Gray, 27 September 1877 . CD stayed with his brother, Erasmus, from 17 …
From J. A. Allen 29 July 1878
Summary
Explains that it was his son, Grant, who sent JAA’s article defending Darwinian origins of morality.
Comments on CD’s Canadian admirers
and asks whether Grant may visit CD at Down.
Author: | Joseph Antisell Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11633 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. …
- … King & Co. Allen, J. A. 1877. The evolution of morality: a reply. Canadian Monthly and …
- … 1876; J. A. Allen replied to it in the same journal in May 1877 ( Watson 1876 and J. …
- … A. Allen 1877 ). CD’s lightly annotated copy of J. …
- … A. Allen 1877 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. There is no evidence that Grant …
- … book Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ) to be ‘clever’ but ‘rather too much in the …
- … strain’ for him (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 May [1877] ). …
To John Price 10 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].
Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 10 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11350 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … on Rudolf Virchow’s book [ Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)]. …
- … University of Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The regius …
- … 25, letter to G. H. Darwin, 21 November [1877] and n. 4. Rudolf Carl Virchow had given …
- … John Murray. 1868. Virchow, Rudolf. 1877. Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat: …
- … und Aerzte zu München am 22. September 1877. 2d edition. Berlin: Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey. …
- … of science in the modern state; Virchow 1877 ) to the Assembly of German Naturalists …
- … and Physicians at Munich on 22 September 1877. He argued that there was no room for …
From R. F. Cooke 26 February 1878
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on number of copies to be printed of Cross and self-fertilisation [2d ed.]. Now that it is revised, they will stereotype.
Type of Forms of flowers stands, awaiting CD’s corrections, before stereotyping and printing of more copies.
RC regrets delay in supply of Origin.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 500 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11376 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … see also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 December 1877 and n. 1). …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation in December 1877; see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to R. …
- … F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] . CD had agreed that Cross and self fertilisation 2d ed. …
- … ibid. , letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 . CD had asked for Forms of flowers to be …
- … 25, letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . When a second edition was produced in 1880, …
- … pp. v–xii). In his letter of 29 November 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), Cooke told CD …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
To Adolf Ernst 16 January 1878
Summary
Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].
Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 16 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11321 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)]. Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 [June 1874] and n. 7), and began again in 1877 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … 25, letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 ). CD never published on bloom, but Francis Darwin …
- … Botany ) 22 (1885–6): 99–116. Ernst, Adolf. 1877. Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de …
- … la flora y fauna de Venezuela ( Ernst 1877 ), but it has not been found in the Darwin …
To Karl von Scherzer 1 April 1878
Summary
Glad to hear of Ernst Haeckel’s reception in Vienna.
R. Virchow’s address ["Liberty of science", Nature 17 (1877–8): 72–4, 92–4, 111–13] very arrogant.
Sorry to hear of death of Arthur Lane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 1 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11460 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … s address ["Liberty of science", Nature 17 (1877–8): 72–4, 92–4, 111–13] very arrogant. …
- … science in the modern state’ in Munich in September 1877; an English version of the text …
- … was published in Nature , 22 November 1877, pp. …
- … 72–4; 29 November 1877, pp. …
- … in Richmond, Surrey, in late 1876 or in 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Karl …
- … 92–4; 6 December 1877, pp. 111–13. Virchow was responding to Haeckel’s address at the same …
- … published in English in Nature , 4 October 1877, pp. 492–6). Virchow held that the German …
From Federico Delpino 23 April 1878
Summary
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11482 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106]. CD’s treatment by the French …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the …
- … in omaggio la “Rivista botanica dell’anno 1877” ove non ho mancato (pag. 84–106) di fare …
- … copy of the “Rivista botanica dell’anno 1877”, where I have not failed (pp. 84–106) to …
- … see Transcript. ‘Rivista botanica’ for 1877, a review of the year’s botanical publications …
- … of Annuario Scientifico ed Industriale 14 (1877); the discussion of CD’s Forms of flowers …
- … the University of Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He had …
- … in Annuario Scientifico ed Industriale 14 (1877): 635–6. CD’s study of cirripedes resulted …
To A. S. Wilson 6 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11402 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Wilson, Alexander Stephen. 1877. Experiments with turnip …
- … seeds. [Read 8 February 1877. ] Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 13 ( …
- … Experiments with turnip seeds’ ( Wilson 1877 ) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL is …
- … with a short printed notice, ‘Experiments in singling turnips’, dated 20 December 1877. …
- … Wilson 1877 is cited in Movement of plants , pp. 230, 298. CD had requested seed of …
From G. H. Darwin 28 January 1878
Summary
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11336 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks …
- … University Press. 1985–. Haughton, Samuel. 1877. Notes on physical geology. — no. III. …
- … geological periods. [Read 20 December 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
- … to the duration of certain geological periods’ ( Haughton 1877 ), was read at the Royal …
- … Society of London on 20 December 1877. Haughton thought the upheaval of Europe and Asia …
From C.-F. Reinwald 8 October 1878
Summary
Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.
Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.
Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11720 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 ; the other letters have not been found. CD …
- … in his letter to Édouard Heckel, 20 November 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). Reinwald had …
- … French translation of Cross and self fertilisation was published in 1877 (Heckel trans. …
- … 1877); that of Expression had been published in …
- … 1874, with a second edition appearing in 1877 (Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
- … 1874 and 1877). The most recent French edition of Origin was Barbier trans. 1876. The next …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From Theodor von Heldreich 8 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Sends Greek translation of CD’s "Sketch of an infant".
Is working for Greek acceptance of Darwinism.
Author: | Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11335 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … It was made from the German translation in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76. Spyridon Miliarakis . …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … In his letter to Heldreich of 9 August 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), CD mentioned that …
- … αιδίου’ in Εστία ( Hestia , Hearth), 25 December 1877, pp. 817–25; a copy is in DAR 139.6. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February [1878]
Summary
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 110–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11362 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 February [1878] . In 1877, CD had mentioned that the underside of …
- … 25, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [20–4 August 1877] and n. 4). CD’s observations on …
- … raised from the seeds sent from Kew, made on 10 June [1877], are in DAR 68: 47. CD’s …
- … acacia like cultriformis’, starting on 9 June 1877, are in DAR 67: 37. He had asked about …
- … wattle) in his letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 22 September 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). …
To Fritz Müller 12 January 1878
Summary
CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.
Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11319 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the same question in his letter of 14 May 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25), having himself …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Movement in plants : The power of movement …
- … 25, letter from Fritz Müller, [27 November 1877] . The surviving version of this letter is …
- … of Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] ( Correspondence vol. 25) to the society on …
- … 25, letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 , and this volume, letter from Raphael …
To Francis Darwin 15 [July 1878]
Summary
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 15 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11511 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … publications de physiologie végétale en 1877. Archives des sciences physiques et …
- … containing long report of Phys. Bot. for 1877. — seems very good & full, with report of …
- … des principales publications de physiologie végétale en 1877’ (Review of the principal …
- … publications on plant physiology in 1877; Micheli 1878 ), was published in Archives des …
letter | (177) |
Darwin, C. R. | (90) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (10) |
Darwin, Francis | (9) |
Romanes, G. J. | (6) |
Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (174) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (14) |
Darwin, Francis | (13) |
Meldola, Raphael | (11) |
Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 28 hits
- … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
- … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
- … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
- … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
- … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
- … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
- … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
- … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
- … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
- … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
- … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
- … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
- … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
- … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
- … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
- … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
- … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
- … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
- … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ). Carlyle’s remarks were …
- … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
- … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
- … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
- … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
- … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
- … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
- … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
- … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
- … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …
1877 letters now online
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Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…
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- … of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin& …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
- … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
- … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
- … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
- … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Letter 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … activity at the site of a Roman villa, 15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … grains by a dilution method. In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
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- … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
- … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
- … Letter from Emil Rade 1 [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
- … From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
- … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
- … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877. …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Exercise: Caricatures of Science
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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …
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- … Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
- … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
- … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
- … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
- … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…