To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877]
Summary
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11008 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [21 October 1877]
Summary
Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11161 |
To W. E. Gladstone 2 October 1877
Summary
Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.
CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 2 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11163 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 October [1877]
Summary
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11165 |
To L. A. Errera 4 October 1877
Summary
Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.
Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
Date: | 4 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11166 |
To J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 October [1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11169 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 7 October 1877
Summary
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11171 |
To Hjalmar Linnström 7 October 1877
Summary
Gives permission to translate Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Hjalmar (Hjalmar) Linnström |
Date: | 7 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00522) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11172 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 8 October 1877
Summary
Speculates that the function of "bloom" is to prevent evaporation.
Raised CD’s question about the geographical distribution of glaucous plants at recent botanical meeting.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11173 |
From J. D. Caton 8 October 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].
Castration suppresses deer antlers.
Author: | John Dean Caton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11174 |
From C. T. E. von Siebold 10 October 1877
Summary
Sends article and photograph of abnormally hairy family.
Mentions death of his student, Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Author: | Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11175 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 10 October 1877
Summary
AdeC’s two letters on bloom will be very useful; his remarks on evaporation and absorption seem very just. CD has made few experiments as yet. The investigation has been tedious and difficult.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 10 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11176 |
To [W. W. Bailey] 10 October 1877
Summary
Thanks for information, which will be useful if CD ever brings out a corrected edition of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whitman Bailey |
Date: | 10 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Steven S. Raab (dealer) (May 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11176F |
From L. A. Errera 10 October 1877
Summary
CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).
Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11177 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 11 October [1877]
Summary
Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 11 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11178 |
To Gaston de Saporta 11 October 1877
Summary
Thanks GdeS for communicating his discovery. It is especially important at a time when several naturalists have declared that development occurs quite suddenly at intervals. Joseph Le Conte in N. America urges that even new families and orders are developed within an extremely short period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 11 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 422 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11179 |
To T. M. Reade 12 October [1877]
Summary
CD is occupied with vegetable physiology.
Prefers to read MS when published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 12 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11180 |
From Robert Damon 12 October 1877
Summary
Asks whether CD considers it possible that a mollusc could poison anyone on contact, as RD has heard from missionaries about a certain South Sea variety.
Author: | Robert Damon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11182 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 13 October 1877
Summary
Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11183 |
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