To ? 2 January 1878
Summary
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308A |
From W. K. Parker 18 January 1878
Summary
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Author: | William Kitchen Parker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10077 |
From F. M. Balfour [c. 31 January 1878?]
Summary
His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 31 Jan 1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10332 |
To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Summary
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
To Raphael Meldola 1 January [1878]
Summary
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11305 |
To Édouard Heckel 1 January 1878
Summary
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 1 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306 |
To H. D. Garrison [1878]
Summary
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herod Dailey Garrison |
Date: | [1878] |
Classmark: | Felter 1902, p. 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306F |
To Hermann Müller 1 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 438 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11307 |
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878
Summary
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309 |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
From William Farrer 4 January 1878
Summary
Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.
Would like references to works on breeding.
Author: | William James (William) Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11311 |
To Karl von Scherzer? 4 January 1878
Summary
Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 4 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11311F |
From Hyde Clarke 5 January 1878
Summary
Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.
Author: | Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11312 |
To W. W. Baxter 6 January [1878]
Summary
Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 6 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11314 |
From W. W. Baxter 7 January 1878
Summary
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
Author: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11315 |
From Leonard Darwin 7 January 1878
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11316 |
From Leonard Darwin 8 January 1878
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11317 |
To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878]
Summary
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 11 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11318 |
To Fritz Müller 12 January 1878
Summary
CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.
Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11319 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, Leonard | (2) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
Darwin, Leonard | (2) |