To H. H. M. Herbert 20 July 1877
Summary
With 88 others signs a letter supporting the representation of natives in the legislative assembly of the Union of South Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of Carnarvon |
Date: | 20 July 1877 |
Classmark: | The Times, 23 July 1877, p. 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11066F |
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 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 26 [July 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the plants.
Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 26 [July 1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11072 |
To F. J. Cohn 26 July 1877
Summary
Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 26 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11073 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 28 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11076 |
To A. H. Sayce 28 July 1877
Summary
Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
Date: | 28 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11077 |
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 28 July 1877
Summary
Thanks BvC for his letter and will read the references concerning instinct.
"I can see that the discussion of the Philosophy of Evolution is at present very important."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
Date: | 28 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11077F |
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 |
To Thomas Druitt 29 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Druitt |
Date: | 29 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11079 |
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 |
To James Torbitt 30 July 1877
Summary
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Torbitt |
Date: | 30 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11081 |
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 |
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