From Karl Beger [12 February 1877]
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10824 |
From Thomas Palmer February 1877
Summary
Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.
Author: | Thomas Palmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10825 |
From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877
Summary
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
Author: | Emil Rade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16] Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10826 |
From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Author: | David Taylor Fish |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
From Hugo Schneider 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Author: | Hugo Schneider |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10838 |
From Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 12 February 1877
Summary
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Author: | Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841A |
From Lawson Tait 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 15 February 1877
Summary
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10846 |
From John Gibbs 20 February 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
Author: | John Gibbs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10857 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 21 February 1877
Summary
Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.
Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10858 |
From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
From John Gibbs 22 February 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.
Author: | John Gibbs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10860 |
From Hunter Nicholson 23 February 1877
Summary
Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.
Author: | Hunter Nicholson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10861 |
From Otto Zacharias 23 February 1877
Summary
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10862 |
From John Scott 24 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10864 |
From Lawson Tait 25 February 1877
Summary
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10868 |
From Alfred Grugeon 25 February [1877]
Summary
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Alfred Grugeon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10869 |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Gibbs, John | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (2) |
Tait, Lawson | (2) |