To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [early 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
To Francis Galton [6–12 January 1877]
Summary
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [6–12 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10774 |
To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10776 |
To Howard Miller 10 January 1877
Summary
Declines offer involving embryological studies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Howard Miller |
Date: | 10 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.505) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10777 |
To G. M. Tracy [after 11 January 1877]
Summary
GMT’s observations [on scarcity of holly berries] throw doubt on CD’s conclusions [see Collected papers 2: 189–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Murton Tracy |
Date: | [after 11 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 174r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10781 |
To August Weismann 12 January 1877
Summary
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 348 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10784 |
To T. L. Brunton 13 January 1877
Summary
CD asks if he may call next day for talk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10785 |
To Emile Alglave [after 13 January 1877]
Summary
Has not seen Delboeuf’s article [see 10786] and would be obliged for a copy. He is not likely to have any comments as he is engaged in other work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Émile Alglave |
Date: | [after 13 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 8v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10787 |
To R. B. Sharpe? 16 January 1877
Summary
Has received from the region of the River Uruguay in S. America "a wonderful nest" of a bird called "El boyero", said to perch on the back of cattle and horses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10793 |
To Wilhelm Rimpau 16 January 1877
Summary
Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10796 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10797 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 17 January 1877
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10798 |
To J. V. Carus 17 January 1877
Summary
JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.
Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10799 |
letter | (33) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Alglave, Émile | (1) |
Belt, Thomas | (1) |
Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
Fuchs, Sigmund | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Leggett, W. H. | (1) |
Miller, Howard | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Post Office Savings Bank | (1) |
Rimpau, Wilhelm | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Sharpe, R. B. | (1) |
Siciliani, Pietro | (1) |
Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Tracy, G. M. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Weismann, August | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |