To ? [before 22 May 1877?]
Summary
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 22 May 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8932 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From C. W. Thomson 1 May 1877
Summary
Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10947 |
To [Francis Lloyd] 1 May [1877]
Summary
CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Lloyd |
Date: | 1 May [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10948 |
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 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 |
To C. W. Thomson 3 May 1877
Summary
Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
Date: | 3 May 1877 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10950F |
To Albert Günther 4 May [1877]
Summary
Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 4 May [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10951 |
To Albert Günther 7 May 1877
Summary
Sends MS about pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 7 May 1877 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/15/112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10952 |
To George King 7 May 1877
Summary
Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae
and skins of the pigeons,
and forwards a note to Dr Scully.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 7 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 113i |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10952F |
From A. G. Butler 8 May 1877
Summary
Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 388 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10953 |
To Fritz Müller 9 May 1877
Summary
Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10954 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 9 May 1877
Summary
French translation of Insectivorous plants published.
Climbing plants has not sold well.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10955 |
From George Rolleston 9 May 1877
Summary
Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10956 |
To A. G. Butler 9 May 1877
Summary
"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10957 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
From D. B. Miller 12 May 1877
Summary
Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.
Author: | David Benton Miller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10959 |
To Fritz Müller 14 May 1877
Summary
Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.
Worm-castings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 14 May 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10960 |
To Karl von Scherzer 14 May [1877]
Summary
Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.
Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 14 May [1877] |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10961 |
From W. B. Bowles 17 May 1877
Summary
Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.
Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.
Author: | William Burrows Bowles |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10963 |
letter | (39) |
Baumhauer, E. H. von | (1) |
Bowles, W. B. | (2) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Miller, D. B. | (1) |
Morse, E. S. | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Rolleston, George | (1) |
Thomson, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Flower, W. H. | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Flower, W. H. | (3) |
Baumhauer, E. H. von | (2) |
Bowles, W. B. | (2) |
Butler, A. G. | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Miller, D. B. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Thomson, C. W. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Drinkwater, C. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Lloyd, Francis | (1) |
Morse, E. S. | (1) |
Price, John | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Riley, C. V. | (1) |
Robertson, G. C. | (1) |
Rolleston, George | (1) |
Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |