From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
From Thomas Meehan 1 July 1877
Summary
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028 |
From Oscar Comettant 1 July 1877
Summary
Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.
Author: | Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11029 |
From Alfred Espinas 1 July 1877
Summary
On painful state of CD’s reception in France.
Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11030 |
From Arnold Dodel-Port 3 July 1877
Summary
Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11032 |
From Max Schlesinger 4 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.
Author: | Max Schlesinger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11034 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 4 July 1877
Summary
Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].
Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11035 |
From John Brigg 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
Author: | John Brigg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11037 |
From William Preyer 6 July 1877
Summary
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11038 |
From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877
Summary
Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.
Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.
Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].
Author: | Charles Louis Bernays |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11040 |
From Ernst Krause 9 July 1877
Summary
Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.
Notes divisions among German Darwinists.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11045 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11046 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Alexander Dickson would like to know whether anyone has described the epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11048 |
From C. G. Semper 13 July 1877
Summary
Sends work on dorsal eyes of Onchidium ["Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work.
Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11050 |
From George Bentham [after 12 July 1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11051 |
From Ernst Krause 14 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to print ["Sketch of an infant"] in Kosmos.
Discusses children’s ability to distinguish colours.
Describes disagreements among German supporters of CD. Discusses reaction of German protestants to Darwinism.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11054 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1877
Summary
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11056 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July 1877
Summary
Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.2: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11060 |
From Adam Fitch 20 July 1877
Author: | Adam Fitch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11063 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
Further objections to "voluntary" sexual selection. Believes that he can explain all the phenomena of sexual ornaments and colours by laws of development aided by simple natural selection.
Excited by Thomas Belt’s "oceanic glacier river-damming" hypothesis. The last paper, "Glacial period in the Southern Hemisphere" in the Quarterly Journal of Science is particularly fine.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11067 |
letter | (34) |
Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
McLennan, J. F. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Bernays, C. L. | (1) |
Brigg, John | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Comettant, Oscar | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Dodel-Port, Arnold | (1) |
Ellacombe, H. N. | (1) |
Espinas, Alfred | (1) |
Fitch, Adam | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
McLennan, J. F. | (2) |
Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Preyer, William | (1) |
Sayce, A. H. | (2) |
Schlesinger, Max | (1) |
Semper, C. G. | (1) |
Smith, W. G. | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |