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 Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
From Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 7 June 1877 |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … in a letter to the editor of Nature published on 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. Francis’s letter …
- … 1877 , and enclosure; Romanes did not publish his remarks in Nature . Francis published extracts from Fritz Müller ’s letter …
- … 1877 My dear Romanes, My father is going off tomorrow morning for a rest of a month & asks me to write to you— He thanks you for your letter which has amused him much (as it did me) he says you should publish it in Nature. From a letter …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 31 August [1877]
Summary
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 31 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11122 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … in F. Darwin 1877b (see letter to Nature , 15 August [1877] and nn. 2 and 3). Francis’s …
- … letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): …
- … 1877, are in DAR 209.10: 66–9. CD had forwarded parts of two letters from Ferdinand Julius Cohn to Nature ; Cohn’s letters …
From William Saville-Kent 26 March 1877
Summary
Proposes to construct an aquarium on Jersey and wants to use CD’s name in support of the project.
Author: | William Saville-Kent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10915 |
From F. J. Cohn [10?] August 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10?] Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11101 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the soil, making them hard to eradicate. CD’s letter to Nature , 21 November [1877], was …
- … Nature , 22 November 1877, p. 64). Huxley told CD he had said only what was strictly accurate (see letter …
- … published in Nature , 29 November 1877, p. 78. It introduced the letter from Fritz Müller …
- … Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the editor of the Fortnightly Review ; CD suggested Romanes’s lecture might be reprinted in that journal (see letter …
- … Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 84–7, John Scott Burdon Sanderson’s paper ‘Remarks on the attributes of the germinal particles of Bacteria , in reply to Prof. Tyndall’, which had been read at the Royal Society of London on 22 November 1877, was printed in full. Burdon Sanderson was responding to remarks made by John Tyndall regarding experiments related to spontaneous generation (for more on Burdon Sanderson in the context of debates about spontaneous generation, see Strick 2000 , pp. 149–53). Romanes’s observations, ‘Fetichism in animals’, appeared not as a letter …
To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 9 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11096 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … plants , p. 366. Romanes’s letter, printed in Nature , 26 July 1877, p. 248, referred to …
- … that had appeared in Nature , 19 July 1877, p. 227. The letter was signed E. Lawless and …
- … Nature . For the work on bloom carried out by CD and Francis Darwin , see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 …
- … letter from G. J. Romanes, 11 August 1877 . An abstract of a lecture by Romanes, ‘Evolution of nerves and nervous systems’, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in Nature , …
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 , and letter to Nature , 15 August [1877] and nn. 2–4). For …
- … 1877 and n. 5). After receiving a copy of Francis Darwin’s paper ‘On the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from the glandular hairs on the leaves of the common teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris )’ ( F. Darwin 1877b ), Ferdinand Julius Cohn had successfully repeated his observations. CD published extracts from Cohn’s letter in Nature ( letter …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1878
Summary
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11612 |
From S. B. J. Skertchly 27 February 1878
Summary
Sends CD a copy of his memoir on the fenland [Geology of the fenland (1877)].
Outlines the results of his recent researches into the geological history of man, the development of Palaeolithic culture, the occurrence of Palaeolithic remains in the boulder-clays of eastern England, and their relation to glacial and inter-glacial periods.
Author: | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11379 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … defended the discovery in their letters to Nature , 21 June 1877, pp. 141–2. Both letters …
- … 1877 , pp. 536–46). Skertchly updated his work on the post-tertiary beds in The fenland, past and present (S. H. Miller and Skertchly 1878, pp. 492–588). Skertchly had reported his discovery of Palaeolithic implements near Brandon, Suffolk, in strata he described as middle glacial or earlier in his letter to Nature , …
From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
From Fritz Müller 5 April 1878
Summary
Observations on a sensitive Mimosa.
Comments on structure and positioning of "odoriferous organs" of moths and butterflies,
and feeding habits of butterfly larvae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11463 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
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 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 Grant Allen 2 [May] 1879
Summary
Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Date: | 2 [May] 1879 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11967 |
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
Date: | 25 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
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 |
From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877
Summary
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11103 |
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Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was …