From Robert McLachlan 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
| Author: | Robert McLachlan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10939 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Robert McLachlan 23 April 1877 …
- … DAR 171: 1 Robert McLachlan Lewisham 23 Apr 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Press. 1985–. M‘Lachlan, Robert. 1877. Report on the Insecta (including Arachnida ) …
- … Arctic expedition. [Read 15 November 1877. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) …
- … Limes Grove, | Lewisham, S.E. 23 Apl. 1877 Dear Sir I take this opportunity of thanking …
- … for election at their meeting of 19 April 1877, and evidently informed the successful …
- … the formal election took place on 7 June 1877, those recommended by the council were …
- … a synonym of Polyommatus aquilo ; M‘Lachlan 1877 , pp. 108–11). CD’s reply has not been …
- … Insecta’ was published in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( M‘Lachlan 1877 ). …
- … See M‘Lachlan 1877 , pp. 101, 106; the species described from specimens collected as far …
From J. D. Hooker 27 January 1877
Summary
JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.
Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].
Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 77–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10817 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 27 January 1877 …
- … DAR 104: 77–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 27 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … University Press. 2004. Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1877. Darwin on fertilisation. …
- … Nature , 15 February 1877, pp. 329–32. …
- … of Cross and self fertilisation was published in Nature , 15 February 1877 ( Thiselton- …
- … Dyer 1877 ). …
- … In his letter of 25 January [1877] , CD had asked Hooker whether Francis Darwin could …
- … 84. Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf. 1877. The gigantic land-tortoises (living and …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 January [1877] and n. 7). The Linnean Society of London …
- … The full paper was published in July 1877 in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical …
- … were read at the Royal Society on 25 January 1877, and an abstract was published in the …
- … papers read at the Royal Society in 1874 and 1877 with part of one read at the Zoological …
- … and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum ( Günther 1877 ; see ibid. , pp. …
- … iii–iv). In Günther 1877 , pp. 8–9, Günther briefly discussed the possible ways that …
From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877
Summary
Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.
Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.
Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].
| Author: | Charles Louis Bernays |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11040 |
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- … From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877 …
- … DAR 160: 176 Charles Louis Bernays St Louis, Mo. 7 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … formed to deal with outbreaks of the Rocky Mountain locust) from 1877 until 1882 ( ANB ). …
- … in the US by D. Appleton and Company in 1877 ( Cross and self fertilisation US ed. ). …
- … 1869–77 ). CD’s copies of the reports from 1871 to 1877 are in the Darwin Library–CUL. …
- … The report for 1877 contains Riley’s compliments slip (see also letter to C. …
- … V. Riley, 19 May 1877 ). Riley was chief of the Department of the Interior’ …
- … St. Louis. Juli 7 th . 1877 Dear Sir After an interval, during which I was too deeply …
- … Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1877. Riley, Charles Valentine. 1869–77. Annual …
To J. V. Carus 16 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks JVC for correcting a bad blunder in Forms of flowers.
His health fairly good; has been able to work "pretty hard".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 168–169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11143 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. V. Carus 16 September [1877] …
- … Charles, Bl. 168–169) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Sept [1877] Julius Victor Carus …
- … IV, and letter to J. V. Carus, 17 June [1877] ). Carus suffered from bronchial problems ( …
- … this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 13 September 1877 . See letter from J. …
- … V. Carus, 13 September 1877 . Carus had sent corrections to Forms of flowers , which he …
- … See letter from J. V. Carus, 13 September 1877 and n. 2. Carus had queried the heading of …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of …
- … p. 205). In his letter of 13 September 1877 , Carus had asked for the unit of calibration …
- … was published by John Murray on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Carus’s name is on CD’s …
To W. E. Gladstone 2 October 1877
Summary
Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.
CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11163 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. E. Gladstone 2 October 1877 …
- … Add MS 44455: 120–1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Oct 1877 William Ewart Gladstone …
- … The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of …
- … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. 409– …
- … University Press. Gladstone, William Ewart. 1877. The colour-sense. Nineteenth Century 2: …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Oct 2 1877 My dear Sir As this note requires no answer, I hope …
- … issue of Nineteenth Century ( Gladstone 1877 ), and supplemented the arguments he had made …
- … see letter to Ernst Krause, 30 June 1877 and n. 1). His paper was published in the June …
- … sketch of an infant’ appeared in Kosmos 1 (1877): 367–76 (August issue); Krause added a …
- … by CD, at the end of the German version ( letter from Ernst Krause, 14 July 1877 ). …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 18 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11059 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877] …
- … Parlatore ( F. Darwin 1878a ). See also letter to G. J. Romanes, 9 August [1877] and n. 8. …
- … 1873–81: ff. 72–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 July [1877] William Turner Thiselton-Dyer …
- … this letter and the letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . See letter from W. …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 . Thiselton-Dyer had sent plants from the Royal Botanic …
- … plants (see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2). Now spelled Nelumbo (see …
- … letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 and n. 7). Averrhoa bilimbi (see letter …
- … from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 16 July 1877 and n. 5. Haematoxylon campechianum (see letter …
- … to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 5). CD discussed the genus Lotus …
From J. D. Caton 8 October 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].
Castration suppresses deer antlers.
| Author: | John Dean Caton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11174 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Caton 8 October 1877 …
- … DAR 161: 126 John Dean Caton Ottawa, Ill. 8 Oct 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877]. Castration suppresses deer antlers. …
- … in May (see letter to W. H. Flower, 19 May 1877 and n. 1). Brooke had established a large …
- … The antelope and deer of America ( Caton 1877 ). Caton’s previous work on deer and elk was …
- … 1868 and n. 5). CD’s annotated copy of Caton 1877 is in the Darwin Library–CUL. The wapiti …
- … Ottawa Illinois October 8 1877 My Dear Sir Your favor of the 10 th of August arrived …
To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877]
Summary
Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.
Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11197 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877] …
- … Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Oct [1877] Raphael Meldola …
- … Bibliography Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1877. The colours of animals and plants. Macmillan’s …
- … Wallace’s paper criticising sexual selection ( A. R. Wallace 1877 ; see letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 31 August 1877 ). …
- … the letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 . CD had offered to lend Meldola a paper …
- … letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1). Meldola wished to write to August …
- … letter from Raphael Meldola, 20 October 1877 and n. 2). CD’s annotated copies of Weismann …
To T. H. Farrer 31 July [1877]
Summary
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11083 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To T. H. Farrer 31 July [1877] …
- … M 546) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 July [1877] Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st …
- … See also letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 22 July [1877] . John Lindley . The Darwins …
- … Hall, near Dorking, Surrey, from 20 to 25 August 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
- … and London: Yale University Press. Murray, Andrew. 1877. Experiments on the flow of …
- … the sap. Gardeners’ Chroncle , 21 July 1877, pp. 72–4. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of …
- … carrot flies, see Journal of the Society of Arts , 8 June 1877, pp. 734–43, and J. F. M. …
- … in Gardeners’ Chronicle ( A. Murray 1877 ), Murray denied that plants derived carbon …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877
Summary
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11056 |
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- … From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877 …
- … DAR 178: 98 William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Kew 16 July 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 2. See letters to …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877], n. …
- … 2, and 14 July [1877] and n. 3. Strephium floribundum is a synonym of Raddia …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 4). Passiflora gracilis is annual …
- … Royal Gardens Kew July 16, 1877 Dear M r Darwin I enclose seeds of all the species of …
- … see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] ). Pistia stratiotes is water lettuce. …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 July [1877] and n. 6. Senecio ficoides is a synonym of …
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877 …
- … Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Mar 1877 Charles Eliot Norton …
- … Wright’s work [ Philosophical discussions (1877)]. Gladstone visited recently, and they …
- … 3 vols. London: Macmillan Co. Wright, Chauncey. 1877. Philosophical discussions. With a …
- … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. ) March 16 1877 My dear M r . Norton I am very much obliged …
- … in Philosophical discussions ( Wright 1877 ); CD’s lightly annotated copy is in the Darwin …
- … his biographical sketch of Wright ( Wright 1877 , p. xvi), Norton discussed the influence …
- … Thomas Scott Huxley took over as rector in 1877. Professor Huxley: Thomas Henry Huxley . …
- … Ewart Gladstone visited Down on 11 March 1877. The visit was part of a weekend party held …
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Nature 24 February [1877] …
- … 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) Charles Robert Darwin 24 Feb [1877] Down Nature …
- … correspondence published in Nature , 8 March 1877 (see n. 2, below). Joseph Norman Lockyer …
- … Nature . The letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 , and CD’s …
- … reply of 12 February 1877 were published in …
- … Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–11, with a covering letter from Pieter Harting . …
To W. H. Leggett 22 January 1877
Summary
Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10808 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To W. H. Leggett 22 January 1877 …
- … and American Literature. Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan 1877 William Henry Leggett …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Leggett, William Henry. 1875. Pontederia …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Jan 22. 1877 Dear Sir, I read some time ago a short …
- … letter from W. H. Leggett, 15 January 1877 , in which Leggett informed CD that he had …
- … see letter from Fritz Müller, 25 March 1877 ). In Forms of flowers , pp. 183–7, CD …
- … cordata in a later article ( Leggett 1877 ). In the preface to Forms of flowers 2d ed. , …
- … p. viii, CD added a reference to Leggett 1877 . See also letter to W. …
- … H. Leggett, 19 August 1877 . …
- … 6 (1875–9): 62–3. Leggett, William Henry. 1877. Pontederia cordata. Bulletin of the Torrey …
From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877
Summary
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10994F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Francis Darwin 11 June 1877 …
- … DAR 274.1: 2 Francis Darwin 11 June 1877 Down Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Francis Darwin, [10 June 1877] ; there was evidently another letter to …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, 27 May [1877] and n. 3. Henry Lettington was the gardener at …
- … See letter from G. J. Romanes, 6 June 1877 . Bernard Darwin . Atty: Arthur …
- … He married Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy in 1877 ( BMD ( Marriage index )). Jim or Jemmy were …
- … Down June 11. 1877 My dear Father I have got yr messages & will do them all square— There …
- … letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 July [1877] and n. 10). Francis’s letter on the nectar- …
- … aquilinum , southern bracken fern), was published in Nature , 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. …
- … See also letter from Francis Darwin, [before 21 May 1877] and n. 3, and F. Darwin 1876d . …
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877] …
- … DAR 210.5: 14 William Erasmus Darwin unstated [12 July 1877] [19 …
- … July 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … them from water damage (see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. 2). Mrs C. : …
- … from Sara Darwin to Emma Darwin, [3 December 1877] (DAR 210.5: 23)). Dick was William’s …
- … In a letter to Emma Darwin of [24 July 1877] (DAR 210.5: 15, dated by a postmark), William …
- … stayed with William until Wednesday 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). There were …
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877] …
- … DAR 274.1: 3 Francis Darwin [Down] [14 June? 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … For CD’s interest in scrofula, see the letter to Agricultural Gazette , 22 March 1877. …
- … Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [3] February 1877 (DAR 219.9: 144)). See n. 1, above. …
- … fifth tooth was ‘nearly through’ on 23 July 1877 ( F. Darwin 1920b , p. 6), so this letter …
- … their absence (see letter from Francis Darwin, 11 June 1877 ). A report of an inquest on a …
- … death from starvation and scrofulous disease appeared in The Times , 14 June 1877, p. …
- … 13. In 1877, 14 June was a Thursday; apparently Francis did go to Southampton on or around …
- … P. P. C. Hoek in a letter of [ c . 24 June 1877]. The letter and Francis’s reply have not …
From E. A. Darwin 31 August [1877]
Summary
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11123 |
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- … From E. A. Darwin 31 August [1877] …
- … 17 July 1877, p. 487). …
- … DAR 105: B102 Erasmus Alvey Darwin unstated 31 Aug [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Press. 1985–. [Laffan, Mary (May). ] 1877. The Hon. Miss Ferrard . 3 vols. London: Richard …
- … author of “Hogan, M.P. ”’ ( [Laffan] 1877 ). The author was later revealed to be Mary ( …
- … May) Laffan. The novel was published in July 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877]
Summary
CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".
Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 435–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10874 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877] …
- … DAR 95: 435–6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Mar [1877] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 January [1877] . Henry Nottidge Moseley ; see letter from …
- … J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] and n. 7. …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . Francis Darwin had delivered his paper on the teasel ( …
- … at the Royal Society of London on 1 March 1877. CD alludes to Francis’s wife, Amy, who had …
To Édouard Heckel 4 March 1877
Summary
Asks EH to make a small correction in his translation [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10878 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Édouard Heckel 4 March 1877 …
- … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Mar 1877 Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel …
- … letter to Édouard Heckel, 19 February 1877 . Heckel was making the French translation …
- … Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877). For CD’s initial correction to p. 275 …
- … self fertilisation , see the letter to J. V. Carus, 19 February 1877 . Julius Victor Carus …
- … had questioned it in his letter of 26 February 1877 . See also letter to J. …
- … V. Carus, 4 March 1877 . The correction was not …
- … made to Heckel trans. 1877, p. 192, but it was made to Cross and self fertilisation 2d …
- … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Mar 4. 1877 Dear Sir, I have much cause to apologise …
From Francis Darwin to the Auckland Star 4 January 1877
Summary
His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.
His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Auckland Star |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Star, 1 March 1877, p. 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770F |
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- … From Francis Darwin to the Auckland Star 4 January 1877 …
- … Auckland Star , 1 March 1877, p. …
- … 2 Francis Darwin Down 4 Jan 1877 Auckland Star …
- … 1876, p. 2. See also Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 . …
- … Station, Orpington, S.E.R. January 4, 1877 Dear Sir,— My father directs me to thank you …
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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…
