From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Author: | David Taylor Fish |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 February 1877
Summary
Would like to see the photographs.
Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834F |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
To T. M. Reade 9 February 1877
Summary
Comments on TMR’s essay ["Geological time"].
It is monstrous that P. G. Tait should say that earth is less than ten million years old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10836 |
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
From Hugo Schneider 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Author: | Hugo Schneider |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10838 |
To Francis Galton 11 February [1877]
Summary
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 11 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10839 |
To A. A. van Bemmelen 12 February 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841 |
From Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 12 February 1877
Summary
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Author: | Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841A |
To Alpheus Hyatt 13 February 1877
Summary
Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].
Discusses polymorphic species.
Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.
Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.
But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10842 |
To Karl von Scherzer 13 February 1877
Summary
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10843 |
From Lawson Tait 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844 |
To Ferdinand von Hochstetter 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends thanks to Anthropological Society for sending birthday greetings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand von Hochstetter |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (April 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844A |
From C.-F. Reinwald 15 February 1877
Summary
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10846 |
To Ernst Haeckel 16 February 1877
Summary
Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10847 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 February 1877
Summary
Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10848 |
To Emil Rade 16 February 1877
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emil Rade |
Date: | 16 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10849 |
To August Weismann 17 February 1877
Summary
Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 17 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 349 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10850 |
To Asa Gray 18 February [1877]
Summary
Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].
Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10851 |
To J. V. Carus 19 February 1877
Summary
Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10852 |
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