From Roland Trimen 2 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11124 |
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 |
From J. F. McLennan 24 July 1877
Summary
Asks for details on CD’s Descent references to female infanticide.
JFM’s work on the laws of incest finds strong evidence for man’s relation to animals.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11069 |
From Thomas Meehan 1 July 1877
Summary
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| McLennan, J. F. | (1) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| McLennan, J. F. | (1) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
