To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
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 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877]
Summary
As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
Date: | [before 1 July 1877] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11027 |
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 |
To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 5 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036 |
To Constantin James 5 July 1877
Summary
Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Constantin James |
Date: | 5 July 1877 |
Classmark: | James 1892, p. [V] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036F |
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 |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 6 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11039 |
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 |
To William Preyer 8 July 1877
Summary
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 8 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 268–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11042 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11043 |
To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877]
Summary
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11044 |
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 |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Bernays, C. L. | (1) |
Brigg, John | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Comettant, Oscar | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
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) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
Ludlow, J. M. F. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (9) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Krause, Ernst | (3) |
Ludlow, J. M. F. | (3) |