To Josef Kořenský 2 April 1877
Summary
"Charles Darwin Down, Kent April 2d. 1877; With Mr Darwin’s compliments. – "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josef Kořenský |
Date: | 2 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Museum of Czech Literature/Památník národního písemnictví (fond Varia Literární archiv) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10922 |
To H. N. Ridley 16 April [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nicholas Ridley |
Date: | 16 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10931 |
To G. N. de Stoppelaar 17 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for membership of Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar |
Date: | 17 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10931F |
To G. H. Lewes 18 April 1877
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 18 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10932 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
To G. H. Darwin [23 April 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [23 Apr 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10937 |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
To W. C. Marshall 20 [April 1877]
Summary
Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 20 [Apr 1877] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10939F |
To Otto Zacharias 26 April 1877
Summary
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | 26 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10941 |
To G. C. Robertson 27 April 1877
Summary
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
Date: | 27 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10943 |
To G. O. Sars 29 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Ossian Sars |
Date: | 29 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 233: Letters to Georg Ossian Sars) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945 |
To C. G. Semper 30 April 1877
Summary
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 30 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (March 1994); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945F |
To Vasile Conta 29 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vasile Conta |
Date: | 29 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | Biblioteca Academiei Române (Manuscripts: Vasile Conta: Regulamente: A.2882) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10945G |
To R. F. Cooke 11 April 1877
Summary
Sends MS [of Forms of flowers]. Since sale is likely to be small, Murray may not want to publish it on usual terms. CD thinks it may be his last book and asks Murray to publish it on most favourable terms he can afford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 11 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 304–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10926 |
letter | (14) |
Conta, Vasile | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Conta, Vasile | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Kořenský, Josef | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Morse, E. S. | (1) |
Ridley, H. N. | (1) |
Robertson, G. C. | (1) |
Sars, G. O. | (1) |
Semper, C. G. | (1) |
Stoppelaar, G. N. de | (1) |
Zacharias, Otto | (1) |