To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
To W. D. Fox 2 December 1877
Summary
Working hard on physiology of plants.
His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.
George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11266 |
To Jacob Moleschott [2 December 1877]
Summary
Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) Moleschott |
Date: | [2 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Laage 1980, p. 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267A |
To R. A. Vance 4 December 1877
Summary
Thanks RAV for valuable letter [11232]. CD too ignorant of anatomy to form a decided opinion, but is inclined to attribute spiral folds to reversion and the valves to partial abortion of the fold. Asks RAV to verify by examining lower intestine of an opossum for the structure. If missing he would hesitate to allude to reversion. If RAV can prove the nature of these remnants it would be a conclusion of much interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reuben Aleshire Vance |
Date: | 4 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11269 |
To W. W. Bailey 10 December [1877]
Summary
"Many thanks for the specimens which will be very useful whenever a new Edition is required."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whitman Bailey |
Date: | 10 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Alfred Williams Anthony collection: box 7, folder 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11274 |
To E. H. Sieveking 11 December 1877
Summary
Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Henry Sieveking |
Date: | 11 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11275 |
To C. H. Merriam [11 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks him for sending his Birds of Connecticut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Clinton Hart Merriam |
Date: | [11 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11276A |
To A. W. Rimpau 13 December [1877]
Summary
Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 13 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11284 |
To Axel Key 20 December 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude and admiration for AK’s and M. G. Retzius’s Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes (2 vols. 1875–6).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Axel Henrik (Axel) Key |
Date: | 20 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11284A |
To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
To J. V. Carus 26 December [1877]
Summary
Thanks JVC for a correction [for 3d German edition of Variation]. He is the most accurate translator that ever lived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 26 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 174–175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11289 |
To R. A. Blair 27 December 1877
Summary
Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Reuben Almond Blair |
Date: | 27 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.529) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11290 |
To W. C. Marshall 27 December 1877
Summary
Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 27 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11291 |
To Albert Gaudry 28 December 1877
Summary
Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 28 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11293 |
To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
To Hyde Clarke [29 December 1877]
Summary
"If you finally succeed in proving that all languages have been developed from a common root, you will indeed have effected a most valuable piece of work."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke |
Date: | [29 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 February 1959) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11295 |
To the Down Friendly Society 31 December [1877?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down Friendly Society |
Date: | 31 Dec [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300 |
To R. F. Cooke 11 December [1877]
Summary
Sends corrected sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. How many copies will be printed? Asks whether he is correct in thinking that he has not been paid for the July printing.
Plans to correct Forms of flowers when new edition is needed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 11 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 297–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11276 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
letter | (19) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Blair, R. A. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Clarke, Hyde | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Down Friendly Society | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Key, Axel | (1) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Merriam, C. H. | (1) |
Moleschott, Jacob | (1) |
Rimpau, Wilhelm | (1) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Sieveking, E. H. | (1) |
Vance, R. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Blair, R. A. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |