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 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 |
letter | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Rimpau, Wilhelm | (1) |
Sharpe, R. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Rimpau, Wilhelm | (1) |
Sharpe, R. B. | (1) |