From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Jacobson
Date:
25 Feb 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.507)
Summary:
Accedes to her [unspecified] request.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
25 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD has harangued the Down Friendly Club. Does not think it will dissolve.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/114)
Summary:
His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 38
Summary:
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Grugeon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 238
Summary:
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 107
Summary:
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
O. Dill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 119
Summary:
Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Feb 1877
Source of text:
eBay (September 2001)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Colby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 207
Summary:
Reports a bluebell monster.
Response to Cross and self-fertilisation, reviewed in Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Oswald Heer
Date:
28 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Landesarchiv des Kantons Glarus, Switzerland (Bestand Oswald Heer (1809–83) LAGL PA 22.A 1:14)
Summary:
Thanks for work on Fossil arctic flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
24 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004)
Summary:
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506)
Summary:
Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Bates, H. W.1
- Bemmelen, A. A. van1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Darwin, C. R.25
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Down Friendly Society1
- Galton, Francis1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gray, Asa1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Heckel, Édouard1
- Heer, Oswald1
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand von1
- Hyatt, Alpheus1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jacobson, Miss1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Linnean Society1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Nature1
- Rade, Emil1
- Reade, T. M.1
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Unidentified1
- Weismann, August1
- Zacharias, Otto1
- FEWER
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Gray, Asa3
- Bemmelen, A. A. van2
- Carus, J. V.2
- Galton, Francis2
- Gibbs, John2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Rade, Emil2
- Reinwald, C.-F.2
- Tait, Lawson2
- Zacharias, Otto2
- Bates, H. W.1
- Beger, Karl1
- Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte1
- Colby, John1
- Dill, O.1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Down Friendly Society1
- Fish, D. T.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Grugeon, Alfred1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Heckel, Édouard1
- Heer, Oswald1
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand von1
- Hyatt, Alpheus1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jacobson, Miss1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Linnean Society1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Nature1
- Nicholson, Hunter1
- Palmer, Thomas1
- Reade, T. M.1
- Rekowsky, Franz von1
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Schneider, Hugo1
- Scott, John1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Unidentified1
- Veth, H. J.1
- Weismann, August1