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 |
To Ernst Krause 11 July [1877]
Summary
EK may publish a translation [of "Sketch of an infant"] if he wishes, but CD hardly thinks it deserves the honour.
Glad to hear that Kosmos succeeds fairly well; has found several articles interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 11 July [1877] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36174) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11047 |
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 |
To George Bentham 12 July 1877
Summary
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11049 |
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 |
To G. C. Robertson 13 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
Date: | 13 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11052 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1877]
Summary
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11053 |
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 |
To Rudolph Ludwig [16 July 1877]
Summary
Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig |
Date: | [16 July 1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11055 |
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 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 16 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society, which wishes to have one of its rules modified to permit the distribution of surplus funds. [Apparently an earlier draft of 11058.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 16 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11057 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 17 July [1877]
Summary
Wishes to have a resolution lately passed by the Down Friendly Society confirmed at the earliest convenience. [See also 11057.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 17 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11058 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11059 |
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 |
To C. G. Semper 18 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 18 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11061 |
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 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 20 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 20 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11064 |
To the National Debt Office [after 29 July 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | National Debt Office |
Date: | [after 29 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11065 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 July [1877]
Summary
Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.
Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 22 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 74–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11066 |
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Lynch, R. I. | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
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Bentham, George | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (9) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Krause, Ernst | (3) |
Ludlow, J. M. F. | (3) |