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To Nature   21 November [1877]

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Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  21 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11245

To Williams & Norgate   1 November [1877–9?]

Summary

Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Williams & Norgate
Date:  1 Nov [1877-9]
Classmark:  Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10234F

From W. W. Bailey   [November 1877]

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Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.

Author:  William Whitman Bailey
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Nov 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11162

To James Cartmell   [November 1877]

Summary

Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Cartmell
Date:  [Nov 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 26v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11218

To Horace Darwin   1 November [1877]

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Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Darwin
Date:  1 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11221

From E. A. Darwin   2 November [1877?]

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A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov [1877?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11223

From ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier   [2 November 1877]

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A student meeting at Edinburgh University has unanimously voted to nominate CD as candidate for lord rector, if he will agree to stand.

Author:  ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [2 Nov 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11224

To ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier   [2 November 1877]

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Although honoured by being asked, regrets the state of his health prevents his standing as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  ‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
Date:  [2 Nov 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11225

To J. D. Hooker   6 November [1877]

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Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.

Son William is to be married 28 November.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 459–60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11226

From A. D. Austin   6 November 1877

Summary

His discovery that in the binocular vision of the stereoscope faces can be blended with decided improvement in beauty. Suggests the possibility of experiments in thus photographing the faces of animals, different races and orders of men.

Author:  Albert Duncan Austin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Nov 1877
Classmark:  Galton 1878, p. 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11226A

From J. D. Hooker   7 November 1877

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Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.

Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 104: 97–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11227

From G. M. Asher   7 November 1877

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On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.

Author:  Georg Michael Asher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 159: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11228

To J. D. Hooker   8 November [1877]

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CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.

CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.

Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 461–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11229

From G. M. Asher   11 November 1877

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Regarding CD’s inability to find a young botanist to investigate Russian wheat; comments on utter lack of organisation in scientific research in Britain as compared with Germany.

Gives arguments against CD’s suggestion that the saxonka seeds could have long dormancy period which would account for their gradual overtaking of kubanka.

Author:  Georg Michael Asher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 159: 118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11230

From J. T. Riches   12 November 1877

Summary

Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.

Author:  John Thomas Riches
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 176: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11231

From R. A. Vance   12 November 1877

Summary

Writes of his observations on the "valves of Houston" in the rectum, which he believes to be rudimentary organs.

Author:  Reuben Aleshire Vance
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 180: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11232

To J. W. Clark   12 November 1877

Summary

Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Willis Clark
Date:  12 Nov 1877
Classmark:  H. Bruce Rinker PhD (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11232F

To Fritz Müller   13 November 1877

Summary

Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  13 Nov 1877
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11233

From J. D. Hooker   13 November 1877

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JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.

O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 104: 99–100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11234

To Lawson Tait   13 November [1877]

Summary

CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  13 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11235
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