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To J. W. Lubbock   27 May [1856]

Summary

Asks JWL to use his influence to forward the appointment of T. H. Huxley to the Examinership in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at University of London. Gives details of THH’s qualifications.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:  27 May [1856]
Classmark:  The Royal Society (LUB: D23)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1877

Matches: 1 hit

  • … DCP-LETT-1877

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   17 January [1877]

Summary

CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  17 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10797

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To Gardeners’ Chronicle    17 January [1877] …
  • … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 20 January 1877, p. …
  • … 83 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Jan [1877] Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • … berries ( letter from G. M. Tracy, 11 January 1877 ). Fish wrote a longer reply to CD that …
  • … CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been reprinted in …
  • … full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7, as well as …
  • … in local newpapers (see letter from Allen Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. …
  • … M. Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
  • … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. …
  • … W. Pim, 15 January 1877 , and letter from L. …
  • … E. Becker, 16 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
  • … Chronicle , 13 January 1877, p. …
  • … 52, 20 January 1877, p. …
  • … 83, and 3 February 1877, pp. 148–9). …
  • … berries appeared in the Garden , 13 January 1877, p. 40. Fish remarked that although most …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   19 February [1877]

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Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  19 Feb [1877]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 24 February 1877, p. 246
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10854

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To Gardeners’ Chronicle    19 February [1877] …
  • … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. …
  • … 246 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb [1877] Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • … made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4]. …
  • … and self fertilisation 2d ed. , see the letter to J. V. Carus, 4 March 1877 and n. 2. …
  • … See Gardeners’ Chronicle , 17 February 1877, p. 204. CD compared self-fertilised and …
  • … self fertilisation appeared in seven parts in Gardeners’ Chronicle (13 January 1877, p. …
  • … 42, 3 February 1877, p. …
  • … 139, 17 February 1877, pp. …
  • … 203–4, 3 March 1877, pp. …
  • … 270–1, 17 March 1877, p. …
  • … 336, 28 April 1877, pp. …
  • … 534–5, and 5 May 1877, pp. 560–1). See Cross and self fertilisation , p. 275. For CD’ …

From W. E. Darwin   [15 January 1877]

Summary

Thanks for the copy of Orchids.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Jan 1877]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10794F

Matches: 18 hits

  • … From W. E. Darwin   [15 January 1877] …
  • … DAR 275: 66) William Erasmus Darwin Southampton [15 Jan 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … nn. 3 and 6, below). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1877, p. 93). William’s name is on CD’s presentation list for the volume (see …
  • … CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been reprinted in …
  • … Maxse . CD visited London from 6 to 15 January 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
  • … William visited Down on 27 January 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7 ( …
  • … see letter from Allen Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. …
  • … M. Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
  • … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. …
  • … W. Pim, 15 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
  • … Chronicle , 13 January 1877, p. …
  • … 52, 20 January 1877, p. …
  • … 83, and 3 February 1877, pp. 148–9). …
  • … George Gordon to William, dated 14 January 1877, is in DAR 210.7: 6. Gordon discussed his …
  • … In his letter to William of 14 January 1877 (DAR 210.7: 6), Gordon wrote that he thought …

To W. D. Whitney   1 August [1877]

Summary

Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.

Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Dwight Whitney
Date:  1 Aug [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11088

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To W.  D.  Whitney   1 August [1877] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Aug [1877] William Dwight Whitney …
  • … force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc. 8 (1877): 123–34] when printed. Sends his own [" …
  • … of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [ Shorter publications , pp. …
  • … 409–16. ] Holden, Edward Singleton. 1877. On the vocabularies of children under two years …
  • … 8: 58–68. Whitney, William Dwight. 1877. The principle of economy as a phonetic force. …
  • … and the letter from A. H. Sayce, 2 August 1877 . Whitney’s letter has not been found. The …
  • … report relating to the 10 to 12 July 1877 meeting of the American Philological Association …
  • … of the American Philological Association 8 (1877): 3–39). After reading CD’s article ‘ …
  • … on sounds made by infants (see letter from A. H. Sayce, 27 July 1877 , and letter to A. …
  • … H. Sayce, 28 July 1877 ). Two papers read at …
  • … the Baltimore meeting concerned language acquisition in children ( Holden 1877 and …
  • … Whitney 1877 ). Whitney’s paper ‘The principle of economy as …
  • … Philological Association ( Whitney 1877 ), but no copy has been found in the Darwin …
  • … of an infant’ , had appeared in the July 1877 issue of the journal Mind: a Quarterly …

To G. J. Romanes   27–8 May [1877]

Summary

Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].

Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.

Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Invites him to visit

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  27–8 May [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10973

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To G.  J.  Romanes   27–8 May [1877] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.546) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27–8 May [1877] George John Romanes …
  • … Comments on book by Grant Allen [ Physiological aesthetics (1877)]. Invites him to visit …
  • … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
  • … and the letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 ( Correspondence vol. 25). This letter was …
  • … vol. 25, letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 3. The council of the Royal Society …
  • … sylvestris ). (Abstract. ) [Read 1 March 1877. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of …
  • … George John. 1877b. Evolution of nerves and nervous systems. Nature , 19 July 1877, pp. …
  • … 231–3, 2 August 1877, pp. …
  • … 269–71, 9 August 1877, pp. 289–93. …
  • … DAR 242)). Physiological aesthetics ( Allen 1877 ). See Correspondence vol. 25, letter …
  • … to G.  J.  Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 1. …
  • … Romanes visited on Wednesday 30 May 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in …
  • … Nature , 19 July, 2 and 9 August 1877 ( …
  • … Romanes 1877 ). See Correspondence vol. 25, letter …
  • … to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 5. CD was away from home from 6 or 8 June until 4 …

To John Murray   28 November 1877

Summary

On publishing details for various CD books.

Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].

Questions amount of cheque for profits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  28 Nov 1877
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11258

Matches: 16 hits

  • … To John Murray   28 November 1877
  • … Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Nov 1877 John Murray …
  • … worms in Earthworms (1881). See letter to R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . CD was awarded …
  • … an honorary LLD at Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See …
  • … See letter from John Murray, 27 November [1877] . Orchids 2d ed. …
  • … was published in January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1877, p. 93). See letter to …
  • … R. F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . Forms …
  • … of flowers was published in July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See letter from R. …
  • … F. Cooke, 23 November 1877 , and letter to R. …
  • … F. Cooke, 24 November 1877 . CD submitted corrected proof-sheets of Cross …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Movement in plants : The power of movement …
  • … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … to William Clowes & Sons , Murray’s printers, on 11 December 1877 ( letter to R. …
  • … F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). The second edition of Cross and self fertilisation was …
  • … Appendix II), CD spent the second half of 1877 working on ‘Bloom — Spontaneous Movement of …

From R. F. Cooke   23 November 1877

Summary

Two thousand more copies of Origin to be printed. Has CD any corrections to make?

Type for Cross and self-fertilisation, Orchids, and Forms of flowers must now be broken up. If CD does not object, Murray will have stereotypes made of the three works. Asks for any corrections CD may want embodied.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 171: 494
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11250

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From R. F. Cooke   23 November 1877
  • … 6, and The Times , 20 November 1877, p. 6. …
  • … Francis Cooke John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50a 23 Nov 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
  • … fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … also letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 October 1877 . William Clowes & Sons were John Murray’s …
  • … was published in 1876, Orchids 2d ed. in January 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 February 1877, p. …
  • … 93), and Forms of flowers in July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD …
  • … had been awarded an honorary LLD degree at Cambridge on 17 November 1877. The event was …
  • … widely reported, including in the Daily News , 19 November 1877, p. …

To G. H. Lewes   18 April 1877

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Summary

Thanks GHL for a copy of his Physical basis of mind [1877].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Henry Lewes
Date:  18 Apr 1877
Classmark:  DAR 185: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10932

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To G.  H.  Lewes   18 April 1877
  • … Thanks GHL for a copy of his Physical basis of mind [1877]. …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Bryanston St, 2 Down letterhead 18 Apr 1877 George Henry Lewes …
  • … Lewes’s book, The physical basis of mind ( Lewes 1877 ) was published in the …
  • … last half of April 1877 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 May 1877, p. 311). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
  • … Bibliography Lewes, George Henry. 1877. The physical basis of mind: being the second …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Ap 18. 1877 My dear M r Lewes, I thank you very …

To G. J. Romanes   23 May 1877

Summary

Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.

The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].

Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments

and his investigation of spiritualism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  23 May 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10971

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To G.  J.  Romanes   23 May 1877
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.513) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 May 1877 George John Romanes …
  • … by Grant Allen [ Physiological aesthetics (1877)]. Comments on dispute over spontaneous …
  • … Bibliography Allen, Grant. 1877. Physiological aesthetics . London: Henry S. King & Co. …
  • … s Physiological aesthetics ( G. Allen 1877 ). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down ( …
  • … of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view’ ( Tyndall 1877 ) on …
  • … 17 May 1877 at the Royal Society of London . Tyndall had been repeating Henry Charlton …
  • … J. Romanes, 4 January 1877 and n. 2, and letter from G. …
  • … J. Romanes, [after 8 January 1877] ). Romanes was carrying out experiments on graft …
  • … from G. J. Romanes, [after 8 January 1877] and n. 5). Romanes had begun investigating …
  • … Harvard University Press. Tyndall, John. 1877. Further researches on the deportment and …
  • … a physical point of view. [Read 17 May 1877. ] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
  • … results to the Royal Society on 18 January 1877 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of …
  • … London 25: 503–6). In February 1877, after hearing of Thomas Henry Huxley’s favourable …
  • … sylvestris ) at the Royal Society on 1 March 1877; an abstract was published in the …
  • … Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877. It was published in three parts in Nature ( …
  • … Romanes 1877b ). CD had lunch with Romanes in London on 8 January 1877 (see letter to G. …

To G. H. Darwin   [3 June 1877]

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Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  [3 June 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10946

Matches: 8 hits

  • … M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 . …
  • … To G.  H.  Darwin   [3 June 1877] …
  • … DAR 210.1: 59 Charles Robert Darwin Down [3 June 1877] George Howard Darwin …
  • … between this letter, the letter from J. M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 , and the letter to …
  • … Edward Atkinson, 9 June 1877 . …
  • … In 1877, the Sunday before 9 June was 3 June. CD refers to the honorary LLD degree (doctor …
  • … from the University of Cambridge (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 May 1877 and letter to …
  • … Edward Atkinson, 9 June 1877 ). The Greek passage appears in the letter from J. …

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

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To Pieter Harting   19 March 1877
  • … University Libraries (BPL 1938) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Mar 1877 Pieter Harting …
  • … Bibliography Harting, Pieter. 1877. Darwin. Album der Natuur 26: 129–48 …
  • … Darwin’ from Album der Natuur ( Harting 1877 ); CD’s annotated offprint is in the Darwin …
  • … Dutch of the letters published in Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–12 (see letter from A. A. …
  • … van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 , and letter to A. …
  • … A. von Bemmelen, 12 February 1877). For his 68th birthday, CD had been sent an album …
  • … van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 . Apart from the announcement in Nature (see …
  • … 1, above), reports of the album also appeared in The Times , 22 February 1877, p. 11, and …
  • … many other newspapers, including the York Herald , 23 February 1877, p. …
  • … 8, and the Bristol Mercury , 24 February 1877, p. 3. …
  • … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. March 19 th 1877 Dear Sir I have been deeply gratified by the …

From C.-F. Reinwald   9 May 1877

Summary

French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 176: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10955

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From C. -F. Reinwald    9 May 1877
  • … F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 . …
  • … DAR 176: 106 Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald Paris 9 May 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Paris le 9 Mai 1877 Monsieur Charles Darwin | Down Cher Monsieur J’ai l’honneur de vous …
  • … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 15 February 1877 ; the French translation of Insectivorous …
  • … made by Edmond Barbier (Barbier trans. 1877). Zwinger has not been identified. The payment …
  • … letter from C. -F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 . Les mouvements et les habitudes des plantes …
  • … of Climbing plants (R. Gordon trans. 1877). Édouard Marie Heckel was translating …
  • … Cross and self fertilisation (Heckel trans. 1877) into French. See letter from C. - …
  • … F. Reinwald, 21 February 1877 and nn. 4 and 5. …
  • … revue et corrigée’ (revised and corrected), was published in 1877 (Pozzi and Benoît trans. …
  • 1877). See also letter from C. - …
  • … Paris 9 May 1877 Mr Charles Darwin | Down Dear Sir I have the honour of informing you that …

From Lawson Tait   13 June [1877]

Summary

Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 June [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10999

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From Lawson Tait   13 June [1877] …
  • … DAR 178: 39 Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait unstated 13 June [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877]. …
  • … Bibliography Tait, Lawson. 1877. Diseases of women . London: Williams and Norgate. …
  • … is established by the reference to L. Tait 1877 (see n. 2, below). Tait remarked on the …
  • … evolution of sexual instincts in L. Tait 1877 , p. 48; the index also includes references …
  • … pangenesis (p. 232). See also letter from Lawson Tait, 15 January 1877 and nn. 1 and 2. …

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: 16 hits

  • … From G.  J.  Romanes   2 December 1877
  • … p. 68 George John Romanes London, Cornwall Terrace, 18 2 Dec 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … reprinted in that journal (see letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 8). …
  • … CD’s reply of 5 December 1877 suggests that this letter was edited for publication. …
  • … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Thomas Henry Huxley had given a speech …
  • … Huxley’s speech, see Nature , 22 November 1877, p. 64). Huxley told CD he had said only …
  • … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 21 November 1877 ). A version of the speech was published in …
  • … 18 Cornwall Terrace: Dec.  2, 1877. It was most kind of you to write me such a long and …
  • … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Vici (Latin): I have conquered. CD had …
  • … letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 4). Romanes refers to the maggots …
  • … them hard to eradicate. CD’s letter to Nature , 21 November [1877], was published in …
  • … Nature , 29 November 1877, p. 78. …
  • … letter from Fritz Müller to CD of 19 October 1877, discussing various plants and insects. …
  • … In Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 84–7, John Scott Burdon Sanderson’s paper ‘Remarks on …
  • … the Royal Society of London on 22 November 1877, was printed in full. Burdon Sanderson was …
  • … the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the editor of …

To Édouard Heckel   19 February 1877

Summary

Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:  19 Feb 1877
Classmark:  Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10852F

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Édouard Heckel   19 February 1877
  • … 2019, lot 43) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Feb 1877 Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel …
  • … p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877]. …
  • … Station | Orpington. S.E.R. Feb 19. 1877 Dear Sir An error of considerable importance has …
  • … fertilisation into French ( Heckel trans. 1877 ). CD later countermanded the correction; …
  • … 25, letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877 . For the source of the original correction, …
  • … see ibid. , letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] . …
  • … John Murray. 1876. Heckel, Édouard, trans. 1877. Des effets de la fécondation croisée et …

To Asa Gray   18 February [1877]

Summary

Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].

Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  18 Feb [1877]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10851

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   18 February [1877] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (122) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Feb [1877] Asa Gray …
  • … and self-fertilisation [ Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41]. Hopes soon to finish with …
  • … and self fertilisation 2d ed. , see the letter to J. V. Carus, 4 March 1877 and n. 2. …
  • … self fertilisation appeared in the American Journal of Science 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41. …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 1. …
  • … Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). For CD’s …
  • … see the letter to Asa Gray, 3 January 1877 and nn. 1 and 2. Polemoniaceae is the phlox …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids 2d ed. : The various contrivances by …
  • … 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
  • … Kew. See letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 1. Gray was planning to write …
  • … 2d ed. (see letter from Asa Gray, 6 February 1877 and n. 3). The letter to John Murray has …

From John Murray   29 November [1877]

Summary

Answers CD’s query about payment made to him [for Descent and Forms of flowers] and explains the basis on which it was made. Because of CD’s wish to be paid before editions are sold off, profits must be estimated. If he were willing to accept annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all were sold, there would be no uncertainty. This is JM’s usual practice.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 497, DAR 210.11: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11259

Matches: 15 hits

  • … From John Murray   29 November [1877] …
  • … DAR 210.11: 12 John Murray London, Albemarle St, 50 29 Nov [1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 1999 , pp. 233, 262. James Davis Cooper . See letter to R. F. Cooke, 11 April 1877 . …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 . See …
  • … letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 . See Correspondence vol. 23, letter to John …
  • … John Murray, 19 November [1875] . See letter to John Murray, 28 November 1877 and n. 8. …
  • … published in 1862, with a second edition in 1877. Trade purchasers received one free copy …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Orchids : On the various contrivances by …
  • … By Author’s 2 3 109 1 6 Mem n 548 on Hand Nov. 29 th 1877 Estimated a/c Supposing all Sold …
  • … De Different Forms of Flowers Cr 1877
  • 1877 June To Printing 1250 N o . and 148 12 — June By 1000 copies Stereo plates for Sep …
  • … Stereo plates for America 443 4 — 443 4 — 1877 Nov By Author’s 2 3 103 2 9 Profit Mem n 54 …
  • … US (see letter from R. F. Cooke, 29 June 1877 ). Four copies of any new work published in …
  • … John Murray Chas Darwin Esq r Estimated A/c Supposing all sold De Descent of Man Cr 1877
  • 1877 June To To Printing 1000 N o 31 17 — June By 1000 copies " 30 Reams Paper 39 — — Sold …

To W. D. Fox   2 December 1877

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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

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  • … To W.  D.  Fox   2 December 1877
  • … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Dec 1877 William Darwin Fox …
  • … of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. …
  • … obliquity of planets ( G. H. Darwin 1876b and 1877) and was working on an explanation of …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington, S.E.R. Dec 2. 1877 My dear Fox, Your sympathy is very warm to …
  • … See letter from W. D. Fox, 29 November [1877] . Richard Buckley Litchfield , CD’s son-in- …
  • … see letter to Horace Darwin, 1 November [1877] and n. 7). Leonard Darwin had injured his …
  • … letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [23 September 1877] (DAR 219.9: 159)). …
  • … Darwin married Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had …
  • … Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 June 1877] (DAR 219.9: 148)). In his paper on marriages …
  • … an honorary LLD, bestowed on him at a special ceremony on 17 November 1877 (see letter to …
  • … Hyacinth Hooker, [18 November 1877] ). CD had been a student at Christ’s College, …
  • … Wedgwood , and her family, from 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘ Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma …

Wagner, Moritz. 1877. Naturwissenschaftliche Streitfragen. Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung (Augsburger), 20 April 1877, pp. 1669–71, and 21 April 1877, pp. 1690–2.

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  • … Wagner, Moritz. 1877. Naturwissenschaftliche Streitfragen. …
  • … Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung (Augsburger), 20 April 1877, pp. …
  • … 1669–71, and 21 April 1877, pp. 1690–2. Dar Pam Q313 25 …
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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  • … , Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and …
  • … from a family that the Darwins had befriended. The year 1877 was more than usually full of honours. …
  • … of a very heavy shower’, William wrote on 24 August 1877 . ‘The leaves were not at all depressed; …
  • … gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). At Down House, Darwin and …
  • … a delicate twig’ ( letter to R. I. Lynch, 14 September 1877 ). Research on movement would continue …
  • … of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s paper eventually appeared …
  • … wrote to the editor, George Croom Robertson, on 27 April 1877 , ‘I hope that you will be so good …
  • … had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have been much interested by …
  • … the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and 25 October [1877] ). …
  • … and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). Gifts of German and Dutch …
  • … Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the journal ‘an …
  • … the director, Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen, on 12 February 1877 : ‘I suppose that every worker at …
  • … of his 70th year. Darwin was in fact 68 on 12 February 1877. Distinguished guests and …
  • … & smooth as butter’ ( letter to C. E. Norton, 16 March 1877 ). Hooker was asked repeatedly by …
  • … & me to dejeuner!!!’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 June 1877 ). Darwin was staying in …
  • … centuries to come’ ( letter from C. C. Graham, 30 January 1877 ). Graham then gave a lengthy …
  • … man and of societies’ ( letter from Marcellin de Bonnal, [1877] ). A similar complaint came from …
  • … by a duke!’ ( letter to J. M. Rodwell, 3 June 1877 ). Back home, he learned from his brother that …
  • … order of the day’ ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 January [1877] ).  Carlyle’s remarks were …
  • … . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he was criticised for having quoted …
  • … monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 October 1877 ). An American banker, William Burrows …
  • … back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles proposed that such …
  • … of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More transitional human …
  • … inflexible tails ( letter from Arthur Mellersh, 1 January 1877 ). The American physician Jesse …
  • … (Trollope 1867; letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] ). Dispute and …
  • … George and Francis. He wrote to Francis on 24 September 1877 about his forthcoming work, Life …
  • … value’, he confessed in a letter of 25 November 1877 that the book had ‘resolved itself into a …
  • … physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin was doubtful of the elephant …

1877 letters now online

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Flowers, bloom, a son married . . . and a suspended monkey in Cambridge at Darwin's honorary LLD ceremony. The transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877 are now online. Read more about Darwin's life in 1877…

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  • … of  over 600 letters written to and from Darwin in 1877  are now online. Read more about  Darwin& …

Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists

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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…

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  • … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
  • … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 )     …
  • … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
  • … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
  • … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
  • … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 )  The professor of …
  • … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …

4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate

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< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…

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  • … him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary …
  • … a celebratory speech at the award ceremony on 17 November 1877. The capital ‘O’ of the first line of …
  • … date of creation late November 1877 
 computer-readable date c.1877-11-18 to 1877-11-30  …

Photograph album of Dutch admirers

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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…

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  • … the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the …
  • … lasting pleasure. ( Letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877 ) Harting had also written …
  • … it states his ‘69th Birthday’, when in fact he was 68 in 1877. It was arranged in alphabetical order …
  • … from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J.  Veth, 6 February 1877 ) Dutch correspondents …
  • … ( Letter from C. W. Thomson, 30 June 1877 ) Much earlier, in 1861, Tiberius Cornelis …

German and Dutch photograph albums

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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…

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  • …   In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
  • … conferred on me ( Letter to Otto Zacharias, [24 February 1877] ) The two albums …
  • … sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 )  View the Dutch album …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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  • … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
  • … my book’ ( To  Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
  • … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
  • … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
  • … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
  • … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …

Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters

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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…

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  • … tiredness of the later years (e.g. letter to E.M. Dicey, [1877] ). Working …

Language: key letters

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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…

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  • … Letter 11074: Sayce, A. H. to Darwin, C. R., 27 July 1877 Darwin’s study of human nature …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … activity at the site of a Roman villa,  15 November 1877 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer's …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Charles Harrison Blackley

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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…

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  • … grains by a dilution method.  In his letter of 9 March 1877 , Darwin wrote: ‘Your calculation of …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • … admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to …
  • … and forenames Occupation Age in 1877 Residence Date …
  • … Leiden 13 June 1823 Rotterdam 2 June 1877 Zoeterwoude …
  • … 5 October 1808 Wildenborch 4 June 1877 Klein Dochteren …

German poems presented to Darwin

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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…

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  • … (see letter from From Emil Rade , [before 16] February 1877). The poems were composed by …
  • … in Rade’s account of the making of the album (Rade 1877, pp. 39–40), but the others were published …
  • … Letter from Emil Rade 1    [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. …
  • … From Emil Rade   [before 16] February 1877 2 Münster i./Westf. February 1877. …
  • … this letter and the letter to Emil Rade, 16 February 1877. 3. The gift was a photograph …
  • … Appendix VI. A number of other poems were included in Rade 1877.   …

Darwin on race and gender

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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

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  • … Treat, 5 January 1872 Letter to [E. M. Dicey?], [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard …

Darwin in public and private

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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…

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  • … Letter 10746 – Darwin to Dicey, E. M., [1877] Darwin gives his opinion on the …
  • … Letter 11267f – Darwin, S. to Darwin, [3 December 1877] Darwin’s daughter-in-law …

Exercise: Caricatures of Science

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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …

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  • …   Lydia Becker (1877) Caricature of Lydia Becker from …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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  • …   ‘Very curious results’ In May 1877, Darwin asked one of his most trusted …
  • … of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ I do not believe I sh d . …
  • … those of Gray, who had written an article on the subject in 1877 (A. Gray 1877e). Gray had reported …

Floral Dimorphism

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…

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  • … | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a …
  • … findings on floral dimorphism were eventually published in 1877, but these experiments and …
  • … SOURCES Book Darwin, C. R. 1877. The different forms of flowers on plants of the …
  • … experiment, the class read chapter 1 of Charles Darwin’s 1877 T he Different Forms of …
  • … Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (London: John Murray, 1877), 16. [2] Ibid., 30. …

1.14 William Richmond, oil

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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…

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  • … of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma …
  • … bibliography ‘University News’, Observer (18 Nov. 1877), p. 6. ‘Mr. Darwin at Cambridge’, …
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