From W. H. Leggett 15 January 1877
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Author: | William Henry Leggett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10790 |
From F. W. Pim 15 January 1877
Summary
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
Author: | Frederic William Pim |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10791 |
From L. E. Becker 16 January 1877
Summary
Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10792 |
To R. B. Sharpe? 16 January 1877
Summary
Has received from the region of the River Uruguay in S. America "a wonderful nest" of a bird called "El boyero", said to perch on the back of cattle and horses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10793 |
From E. A. Darwin 16 January [1877]
Summary
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
From Lawson Tait 16 January 1877
Summary
Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10795 |
To Wilhelm Rimpau 16 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10796 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10797 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10798 |
To J. V. Carus 17 January 1877
Summary
JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.
Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10799 |
To Lawson Tait 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10800 |
From A. R. Wallace 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B132–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10801 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1877
Summary
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 74–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10802 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 January 1877
Summary
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10803 |
To Thomas Belt 18 January 1877
Summary
Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10804 |
From Arthur Rawson 19 January 1877
Summary
Has observed the scarcity of humble-bees and subsequently of holly berries this year. But does not think humble-bees ever visit holly flowers, however plentiful they may be.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10805 |
From Thomas Belt 20 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s frank criticism of his views.
Hooker advises him to apply for aid to work out glaciation between Pyrenees and Alps.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10806 |
From J. V. Carus 20 January 1877
Summary
Lists misprints in Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends observations and references relevant to a new edition of Expression.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10807 |
To W. H. Leggett 22 January 1877
Summary
Comments on WHL’s paper ["Pontederia cordata", Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 (1875–9): 62–3]. Cites Fritz Müller’s conclusion that plant is trimorphic. Has WHL made further observations?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Leggett |
Date: | 22 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10808 |
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