To W. H. Flower 2 May [1877]
Summary
‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 2 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10949 |
From W. H. Flower to Otto Zacharias 17 May 1877
Summary
Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 17 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10962 |
From Otto Zacharias 21 April 1877
Summary
Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10936 |
From Ernst Krause 11 March 1877
Summary
As editor of the new journal, Kosmos, thanks CD for the permission he has granted Ernst Haeckel to publish with CD’s approval.
Cites his long support for evolution as exemplified by his book [Die botanische Systematik in ihrem Verhältniss zur Morphologie (1866)].
CD has many German supporters.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10888 |
To Otto Zacharias 26 April 1877
Summary
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10941 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
From George King 28 September 1880
Summary
Sends two preserved pigs (showing some hereditary phenomenon) that the late John Scott intended for CD.
King has all of Scott’s papers.
| Author: | George King |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12729 |
From Otto Zacharias 2 October 1876
Summary
Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].
German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10628 |
From Otto Zacharias 23 February 1877
Summary
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10862 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1877 . The first issue of Kosmos appeared in April 1877. On Ernst Haeckel’s support for the journal, see the letter from Otto Zacharias, …
- … 1877 and n. 5. Krause had published under the pseudonym Carus Sterne. No additional photographs have been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL or at Down House. The notes are for CD’s reply (see letter to Otto Zacharias, [ …
From Otto Zacharias 19 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Describes difficulties in launching Darwinian journal.
Mentions recent criticism of evolution in Germany.
Would like to translate essay on marriage between relatives [by G. H. Darwin, see 9487].
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10127 |
To Otto Zacharias [24 February 1877]
Summary
Thanks OZ for a "magnificent Album".
On Beagle voyage CD believed in permanence of species. Had occasional vague doubts. In autumn of 1836 saw how many facts indicated common descent of species. In 1837 opened notebook to record facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
| Date: | [24 Feb 1877] |
| Classmark: | Zacharias 1882, pp. 76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10863 |
From Otto Zacharias 7 January 1877
Summary
Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.
Haeckel is ill.
German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.
| Author: | Otto Zacharias |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 184: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10775 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1877, pp. 29, 32 ( Zacharias 1877c ). Ernst Haeckel had been an early supporter of Zacharias’s plan to publish a popular journal devoted to Darwinian science (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Otto Zacharias, …
- … letter to Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ) Zacharias sent CD a copy of his essay review, ‘Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche’ (Darwin on crossing and self-fertilisation in the plant kingdom; Zacharias 1877a ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Zacharias’s review of Cross and self fertilisation entitled ‘Darwins neuestes Werk’ appeared in Die Gegenwart , 13 January 1877, …
From Ernst Haeckel 7 November 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10246 |
From W. H. Flower 3 May 1877
Summary
Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10950 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877]. CD had previously corresponded with Flower about a rudimentary sixth toe in frogs (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to W. H. Flower, 11 July [1863] ). CD discussed polydactylism and inheritance in Variation 2: 12–17, including rudimentary extra digits in dogs, horses, goats, sheep, and pigs. The other forefoot had not been sent to CD, but was to be photographed (see letter from Otto Zacharias, …
From Raphael Meldola 13 June 1878
Summary
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877, Müller had published on sexual selection in Brazilian butterflies and on hair-tufts, felted spots, brushes, and similar structures in male butterflies ( F. Müller 1877a and 1877b). Cameron 1878 ; Tenthredinidae is the largest family of sawflies. CD sent Otto Zacharias’s photographs of leaf-mimic katydids to Meldola with his letter …
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| Zacharias, Otto | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Flower, W. H. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| King, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Zacharias, Otto | (3) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Zacharias, Otto | (8) |
| Flower, W. H. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| King, George | (1) |
