To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11245 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 78 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Nov [1877] Nature …
- … To Nature 21 November [1877] …
- … Nature , 29 November 1877, p. …
- … of the letter in Nature . CD enclosed the letter from Fritz Müller, 19 October 1877 . See …
- … 1877 . Thomas Henry Farrer had described the action of bees on the calyx of Coronilla varia (a synonym of Securigera varia , purple crown vetch) in an article on papilionaceous flowers published in Nature , …
- … Nature , 2 July 1874, pp. 169–70. Forms of flowers 2d ed. : The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species . 2d edition. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Leggett, William Henry. 1877. …
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: 5 hits
- … 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) Charles Robert Darwin 24 Feb [1877] Down Nature …
- … To Nature 24 February [1877] …
- … the reference to the correspondence published in Nature , 8 March 1877 (see n. 2, below). …
- … CD’s reply of 12 February 1877 were published in Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–11, with a …
- … of Nature . The letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 , and …
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 |
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner. 1877. Darwin on fertilisation. Nature, 15 February 1877, pp. 329–32.
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1877b. Notes on the botany of the Rocky Mountains. Nature, 25 October 1877, pp. 539–40.
Gray, Asa. 1877a. Scientific worthies XI.— Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Nature, 25 October 1877, pp. 537–9.
To J. W. Judd [after 1 February 1877]
Summary
Tells of his pleasure and surprise at reading JWJ’s article ["Darwin’s ""Geological observations"" ", Nature 15 (1877): 289–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
Date: | [after 1 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10828 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1878
Summary
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11612 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … degree and Huxley’s speech, see Nature , 22 November 1877, p. 64). Huxley told CD he had …
- … the soil, making them hard to eradicate. CD’s letter to Nature , 21 November [1877], was …
- … published in Nature , 29 November 1877, p. 78. It introduced the letter from Fritz …
- … various plants and insects. In Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 84–7, John Scott Burdon …
- … but in the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the …
Romanes, George John. 1877b. Evolution of nerves and nervous systems. Nature, 19 July 1877, pp. 231–3, 2 August 1877, pp. 269–71, 9 August 1877, pp. 289–93.
Galton, Francis. 1877b. Typical laws of heredity. Nature, 5 April 1877, pp. 492–5; 12 April 1877, pp. 512–14; 19 April 1877, pp. 532–3.
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 |
From F. J. Cohn [10?] August 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10?] Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11101 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from Cohn’s letter of 5 August 1877 in Nature ; Cohn had confirmed some of Francis Darwin’ …
- … intended ‘stomata’ (see letter to Nature , 15 August [1877]). CD added some of Cohn’s …
- … 5 August 1877 in his letter in Nature , 15 August [1877]. An abstract of Cohn’s lecture, …
- … 1877 My dear Sir That you value so highly the evidence I can give of the discoveries of Mr. Francis D. , is the greatest honour I ever was treated with. When you believe my witness necessary for the establishment of truth before the scientific jury of your country, then of course I am willing to testify the matter of fact. It is not without timidity that I may produce my evidence before the public being well conscious of the incorrectness of my English; but if you will kindly put right my letter which was written without regard of publicity, the readers of “Nature” …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877
Summary
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10848 |
From Francis Darwin to T. F. Cheeseman 12 December 1877
Summary
Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Date: | 12 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11277 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … T. F. Cheeseman, 23 October 1877 , was published in Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4. …
- … 1877 Dear Sir, My father begs me to express to you his thanks for your kindness in sending your pamphlet on Selliera. He has been so much interested by your letter that he has ventured to forward it for publication to Nature. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877]
Summary
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11122 |
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From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of Germany and the Netherlands [ Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his …
- … Nature , 22 February 1877, p. 356, reported that on the occasion of CD’s 69th birthday, he …
- … 1877. — My dear Darwin, I cannot refrain from writing you a few words of congratulation, in reference to the splendid Testimonial you have lately received from the savans of Germany & The Netherlands, & which I have read an account of in “Nature”. …
- … 1877 . CD had entered his 69th year; both albums made a mistake with his age, see n. 1, above. In Variation 1: 4–9, CD described two projected works based on his unpublished ‘big book’ on species ( Natural selection ). The first was to be on ‘variability of organic beings in a state of nature’, …
From T. F. Cheeseman 23 October 1877
Summary
Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].
Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11204 |
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Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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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Summary
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Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
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- … By John Schaefer, Harvard University* Charles Darwin’s enthusiasm for carnivorous …
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Summary
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