From [W. T. Thiselton-Dyer] [after 22 September 1877]
Summary
Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Sept 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10750 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 3 September 1877
Summary
Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B136–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11125 |
From Thomas Churton 3 September 1877
Summary
Report of child with tail and man with four nipples.
Author: | Thomas Churton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11126 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 September [1877]
Summary
Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11127 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877]
Summary
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11128 |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 6 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for another part of Australian orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Date: | 6 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11130 |
From J. W. Clark 8 September 1877
Summary
An example of inheritance confined to one sex.
Author: | Joseph Warner Clark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11131 |
From W. M. Moorsom 10 September 1877
Summary
In Descent [1: 12] CD discusses intoxication among animals. South African elephants reportedly eat a plant that makes them wild.
Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11132 |
From F. E. Nipher 10 September 1877
Summary
Cites another example of inheritance of maternal impressions.
Author: | Francis Eugene Nipher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11133 |
To W. M. Moorsom 11 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
Date: | 11 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11134 |
From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877
Summary
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11135 |
From J. V. Carus 13 September 1877
Summary
Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11136 |
From W. M. Moorsom 13 September [1877]
Summary
Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.
Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11137 |
From Horatio Piggot 13 September 1877
Summary
Criticises passages of Insectivorous plants. Suggests plants be weighed before and after feeding to prove they have gained nourishment.
Author: | Horatio Piggot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11138 |
To R. I. Lynch 14 September 1877
Summary
Thanks RIL for notes.
Asks about movement of Euphorbia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11139 |
To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 15 September [1877]
Summary
Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 15 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., 1873–81: ff. 95–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11141 |
From L. A. Errera 15 September 1877
Summary
Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11142 |
To J. V. Carus 16 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks JVC for correcting a bad blunder in Forms of flowers.
His health fairly good; has been able to work "pretty hard".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 16 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 168–169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11143 |
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Errera, L. A. | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Lynch, R. I. | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
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Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
Errera, L. A. | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
Moorsom, W. M. | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin, Sara | (2) |
Sedgwick, Sara | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
Churton, Thomas | (1) |
Clark, J. W. (b) | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Fitzgerald, R. D. | (1) |
Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
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Nipher, F. E. | (1) |
Nägeli, C. W. von | (1) |
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Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
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Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |