To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 March 1877]
Summary
JDH reports on Frank’s reading of his Dipsacus paper at the Royal Society. Huxley slept through much of it, but JDH is well pleased with it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 93–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10873 |
To [John Colby] 2 March [1877]
Summary
Does not think the pistil behaved as JC described, except by mere accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Colby |
Date: | 2 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10873F |
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 |
To Albert Günther 3 March 1877
Summary
Discusses spider specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 3 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10875 |
To G. B. Ercolani 3 March 1877
Summary
Thanks GBE for his essay on the placenta [Sull’unità del tipo anatomico della placenta nei mammiferi e nell’umana specie (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Giovanni Battista Ercolani |
Date: | 3 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna (Collezione degli autografi, XXIII, 6542) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10876 |
To J. V. Carus 4 March 1877
Summary
Apologises for sending wrong Cross and self-fertilisation erratum. The error is on p. 191 (where "cross-seeds" appears, it should read "self-fertilised"). There is no error on p. 275.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 4 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 162–163) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10877 |
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 |
From C. F. Claus 5 March 1877
Summary
Has read in the newspapers about the album of photographs of German scientists sent in tribute to CD. His name and photograph are missing only because he was not asked to participate. CC assures CD he is one of his ardent supporters.
Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10879 |
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 7 March 1877
Summary
Baillière wishes to bring out a French translation of Coral reefs; CD requests their co-operation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 7 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10882 |
To Asa Gray 8 March 1877
Summary
Leucosmia burnettiana is in all probability dimorphic. Thinks Gilia is truly heterostyled and Phlox subulata was, perhaps, once heterostyled. Has good evidence of heterostyly in 39 genera from 14 families.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10883 |
To Melchior Neumayr 9 March 1877
Summary
Thanks MN for essay ["Die Congerien", Abh. Geol. Bundesanst. Wien 7 (1875)]. It is the best case CD has met, showing "direct influence of conditions of life on the organization". A. Hyatt has come to same conclusion: that closely similar forms may be derived from distinct lines of descent. CD did not emphasise in Origin the direct action of environment on modification of species; most of the best evidence has been observed since its publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Melchior Neumayr |
Date: | 9 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10884 |
To C. F. Claus 9 March 1877
Summary
Warm thanks for CC’s letter. CD needed no word from CC to be convinced of his high opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Date: | 9 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 210–211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10885 |
To C. H. Blackley 9 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for CHB’s essay [New observations on hay-fever (1877?)]. The calculation of the weight of pollen-grains is wonderful. Suggests he consult Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 376, 405 for information on this subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
Date: | 9 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10886 |
From J. G. F. Riedel 10 March 1877
Summary
Asks CD to publish in Nature JGFR’s observation that natives of Hainan have movable tail bones up to 4 cm long.
Author: | Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10887 |
To Daniel Oliver 10 March 1877
Summary
Enquiring about cleistogamic flowers of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 10 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10887F |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1877
Summary
Discusses the cleistogamous flowers of Oxalis. Thinks they may not be truly cleistogamous but merely arrested or imperfectly developed normal flowers.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10890 |
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