From George Hodgskin 6 January 1877
Summary
Sends nest of a Uruguayan bird.
Author: | George Hodgskin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10773 |
To Francis Galton [6–12 January 1877]
Summary
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [6–12 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10774 |
From Otto Zacharias 7 January 1877
Summary
Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.
Haeckel is ill.
German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10775 |
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
To Howard Miller 10 January 1877
Summary
Declines offer involving embryological studies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Howard Miller |
Date: | 10 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.505) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10777 |
From Allen Stoneham 11 January 1877
Summary
Has read CD’s note on the scarcity of holly berries ["Holly berries" (1877), Collected papers 2: 189–90] resulting from the scarcity of bees. Believes the shortage of bees resulted from the wet year 1875, which led to a very poor honey harvest.
Author: | Allen Stoneham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10778 |
From G. M. Tracy 11 January 1877
Summary
Observations on and explanations of the scarcity of fruit and berries (especially holly berries) evident that year.
Author: | George Murton Tracy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10779 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1877
Summary
Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.
Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10780 |
To G. M. Tracy [after 11 January 1877]
Summary
GMT’s observations [on scarcity of holly berries] throw doubt on CD’s conclusions [see Collected papers 2: 189–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Murton Tracy |
Date: | [after 11 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 174r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10781 |
From T. M. Reade 12 January 1877
Summary
TMR’s address ["Geological time" (Presidential Address, 1876), Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35] not yet published. Will send copy.
Author: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR2.D.1.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10782 |
From Francis Galton 12 January 1877
Summary
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10783 |
To August Weismann 12 January 1877
Summary
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 348 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10784 |
To T. L. Brunton 13 January 1877
Summary
CD asks if he may call next day for talk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10785 |
From Emile Alglave 13 January 1877
Summary
Asks whether CD has any observations to make on J. R. L. Delboeuf’s article ["Les mathématiques et la transformisme"] in Revue Scientifique [2d ser. 29 (1877): 669–79]. He would be pleased to receive a letter or article for publication.
Author: | Émile Alglave |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10786 |
To Emile Alglave [after 13 January 1877]
Summary
Has not seen Delboeuf’s article [see 10786] and would be obliged for a copy. He is not likely to have any comments as he is engaged in other work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Émile Alglave |
Date: | [after 13 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 8v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10787 |
From Alfred Grugeon 14 January [1877]
Summary
Believes CD is in error in his notice on the scarcity of holly berries [Collected papers 2: 189–90] in asserting that holly is not a hermaphrodite.
Author: | Alfred Grugeon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10788 |
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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Belt, Thomas | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Alglave, Émile | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (77) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Belt, Thomas | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |