From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Summary
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 17 January 1877]
Summary
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: B55–8r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10757 |
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 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
