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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
[c. 11 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051)
Summary:

The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 3
Summary:

Intends to name his son after CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Palmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 14
Summary:

Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Rade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080)
Summary:

Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[after 1 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 69
Summary:

Tells of his pleasure and surprise at reading JWJ’s article ["Darwin’s ""Geological observations"" ", Nature 15 (1877): 289–90].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
6 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Requests return of August Weismann’s letter which refers to eggs.

Curious about the drawing [of the caterpillar? See 10780].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 193
Summary:

Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 123
Summary:

Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
7 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9)
Summary:

Would like to see the photographs.

Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 70
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.

Plans trip to Mediterranean.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
9 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.2)
Summary:

Comments on TMR’s essay ["Geological time"].

It is monstrous that P. G. Tait should say that earth is less than ten million years old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: A84
Summary:

Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 60
Summary:

Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24)
Summary:

Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 31
Summary:

Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 47
Summary:

CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:

Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].

Discusses polymorphic species.

Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.

Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.

But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 37
Summary:

Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].

Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project