To Ernst Krause 30 June 1877
Summary
CD interested in EK’s argument against belief that sense of colour has been recently acquired by man. Describes his observations of the difficulty his own children had in distinguishing, or naming, colours.
Adds that it appeared to him the gustatory sense of his children, when young, differed from that of grown-up persons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36173) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11023 |
From William Roberts 30 June 1877
Summary
He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.
| Author: | William Roberts |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11025 |
From C. W. Thomson 30 June 1877
Summary
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
| Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11026 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 June [1877]
Summary
Has not heard from Appleton about an American edition [of Forms of flowers]. Asks how many copies Murray is printing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 302–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11024 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Roberts, William | (1) |
