To A. A. van Bemmelen 12 February 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841 |
From A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth 6 February 1877
Summary
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
| Author: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10831 |
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 Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
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 Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
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 |
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 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bemmelen, A. A. van | (1) |
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| Semper, C. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bemmelen, A. A. van | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
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