From W. G. Smith 24 July 1877
Summary
Reports a fossil fungus, complete with fossil zoospores, within the vascular bundles of a Lepidodendron from the Coal Measures. The genus is Pythium and it appears no different from living species.
Author: | Worthington George Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11068 |
From J. F. McLennan 24 July 1877
Summary
Asks for details on CD’s Descent references to female infanticide.
JFM’s work on the laws of incest finds strong evidence for man’s relation to animals.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11069 |
From R. I. Lynch 25 July 1877
Summary
List of plants sent.
Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11070 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 25 July 1877
Summary
Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11071 |
From A. H. Sayce 27 July 1877
Summary
Having read CD’s article in Mind ["Biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], AHS questions CD about the child’s first attempts at speech, hoping to throw light on the origin of language.
Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11074 |
From W. G. Smith 27 July 1877
Summary
Has examined some sea-kale and iris leaves sent by CD and does not think the scars are caused by fungus but rather through the action of insects. Feels "bloom" may protect leaves from such insect attack.
Author: | Worthington George Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11075 |
From Oswald Heer 29 July 1877
Summary
Comments on Forms of flowers.
Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.
Notes work on Ginkgo.
Author: | Oswald Heer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11078 |
From A. H. Sayce 30 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.
Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11080 |
From J. F. McLennan 30 July 1877
Summary
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11082 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 31 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.
Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11084 |
From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877]
Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11117 |
From R. I. Lynch [before 28 July 1877]
Author: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11118 |
From H. N. Ellacombe 30 July [1877]
Summary
Sends a specimen of Schrankia.
Author: | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6298 |
From R. F. Cooke 2 July 1877
Summary
"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 489 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11031 |
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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) |