To John Andrews [before 12 March 1877]
Summary
Asks when his waggonette will be finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Andrews |
Date: | [before 12 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | Haslemere Educational Museum (HAEEM.LD.5.729) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10890A |
To Daniel Oliver 13 March 1877
Summary
Discusses possible cleistogamic flowers in Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10891F |
From Karl von Estorff 15 March 1877
Summary
Sends belated birthday greetings
and an archaeological pamphlet.
Asks for CD’s autograph.
Author: | Georg Otto Karl (Karl) von Estorff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10892 |
From R. D. Fitzgerald 15 March 1877
Summary
Fertilisation of orchids. Believes some plants so constituted as to dispense with cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10893 |
From C. C. Babington 16 March 1877
Summary
Thinks flowers of Hottonia project from the stem nearly horizontally, perhaps slightly upwards.
Sorry that he cannot help with Pulmonaria angustifolia.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10894 |
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1877
Summary
Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10898 |
To Pieter Harting 19 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for account of his work. Cannot read Dutch, but son has translated it.
Thanks for album sent by PH’s countrymen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Pieter Harting |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10899 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 19 March 1877
Summary
Regrets he cannot help on Oxalis question. He did not note the names of species with cleistogamic flowers as he thought they were sufficiently known.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10900 |
To Asa Gray 19 March [1877]
Summary
Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].
Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10901 |
From G. J. Wilson 19 March 1877
Summary
Pangenesis supports the existence of gemmules; does not accept Galton’s experiments as disproving their existence or importance.
Author: | George John Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10904 |
From J. C. Morton 19 March 1877
Summary
The editor of the Agricultural Gazette asks CD to settle a point being debated in his journal. Can a desirable breed of cattle, which is so inbred as to have scrofula, be maintained by crossing with a breed of healthy constitution?
Author: | John Chalmers Morton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10905 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877]
Summary
CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.
Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 437–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10906 |
To Enrique Godínez 21 March 1877
Summary
Has received the sheets of EG’s Spanish translation of Origin. Regrets that he cannot undertake to read them because of his health, over-work, and having forgotten much of the language. What he has read seems clearly expressed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Enrique Godínez y Esteban (Enrique Godínez) |
Date: | 21 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Godínez trans. 1877, p. [VIII] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10908 |
From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
Summary
A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
To Agricultural Gazette 22 March 1877
Summary
Evidence for inheritance of constitutional diseases like scrofula so good that it seems rash to breed tainted animal.
Experiments given in Cross and self-fertilisation show that evil of inbreeding follows from near relations possessing closely similar constitution.
Size and vigour increased by breeding plants and animals from ancestors that lived some generations under different conditions of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Agricultural Gazette |
Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Agricultural Gazette, 2 April 1877, pp. 324–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10910 |
From Fritz Müller 25 March 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for new [2d] edition of Orchids.
Mentions some observations on dimorphic plants.
Reports on a third species of Pontederia [see Forms of flowers, p. 185].
Describes some unusual grasses.
Reports rumours from southern Brazil concerning the existence of a gigantic subterranean animal.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10911 |
To Ernst Krause 25 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for EK’s book [Werden und Vergehen (1876)].
Regrets he cannot write for EK’s journal, but his son, Francis, may do so.
Suggests EK as editor urge on readers [of Kosmos] the investigation of the causes of variability; why, for instance, do wild Pampas cattle change colour when domesticated? Thinks experiments and observations on recently domesticated animals and cultivated plants would throw light on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 25 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10912 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for specimens [of insects].
Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.
Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10913 |
To J. V. Carus 26 March 1877
Summary
Had found out his error [use of "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" in Cross and self-fertilisation] some timeago.
Is now writing on cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all his old materials on plants. JVC will then have a rest from his labours of translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10914 |
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Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Claus, C. F. | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Krause, Ernst | (2) |
Saville-Kent, William | (2) |
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Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Blackley, C. H. | (1) |
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Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
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Layton, Charles | (1) |
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Morton, J. C. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Neumayr, Melchior | (1) |
Norton, C. E. | (1) |
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