To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11245 |
To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
From W. W. Bailey [November 1877]
Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11162 |
To James Cartmell [November 1877]
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Cartmell |
Date: | [Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 26v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11218 |
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
From E. A. Darwin 2 November [1877?]
Summary
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11223 |
From ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier [2 November 1877]
Summary
A student meeting at Edinburgh University has unanimously voted to nominate CD as candidate for lord rector, if he will agree to stand.
Author: | ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11224 |
To ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier [2 November 1877]
Summary
Although honoured by being asked, regrets the state of his health prevents his standing as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier |
Date: | [2 Nov 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11225 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
From A. D. Austin 6 November 1877
Summary
His discovery that in the binocular vision of the stereoscope faces can be blended with decided improvement in beauty. Suggests the possibility of experiments in thus photographing the faces of animals, different races and orders of men.
Author: | Albert Duncan Austin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | Galton 1878, p. 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226A |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1877
Summary
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11227 |
From G. M. Asher 7 November 1877
Summary
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.
Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11228 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
From G. M. Asher 11 November 1877
Summary
Regarding CD’s inability to find a young botanist to investigate Russian wheat; comments on utter lack of organisation in scientific research in Britain as compared with Germany.
Gives arguments against CD’s suggestion that the saxonka seeds could have long dormancy period which would account for their gradual overtaking of kubanka.
Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11230 |
From J. T. Riches 12 November 1877
Summary
Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.
Author: | John Thomas Riches |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11231 |
From R. A. Vance 12 November 1877
Summary
Writes of his observations on the "valves of Houston" in the rectum, which he believes to be rudimentary organs.
Author: | Reuben Aleshire Vance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11232 |
To J. W. Clark 12 November 1877
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Willis Clark |
Date: | 12 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | H. Bruce Rinker PhD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11232F |
To Fritz Müller 13 November 1877
Summary
Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11233 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877
Summary
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11234 |
To Lawson Tait 13 November [1877]
Summary
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11235 |
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Austin, A. D. | (1) |
Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Black, E. W. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Frazier, ‘Bronsomerulay’ | (1) |
Hoare, Charles | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
John Murray | (2) |
Joyce, J. G. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Riches, J. T. | (1) |
Sandys, J. E. | (1) |
Saunders, William | (1) |
Vance, R. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Cartmell, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |