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DCP-LETT-10759F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 July? 1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85)
Summary:

Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11036F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Constantin James
Date:
5 July 1877
Source of text:
James 1892, p. [V]
Summary:

Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11039

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8)
Summary:

Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.

Occurrence of "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
9 July [1877]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
11 July [1877]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36174)
Summary:

EK may publish a translation [of "Sketch of an infant"] if he wishes, but CD hardly thinks it deserves the honour.

Glad to hear that Kosmos succeeds fairly well; has found several articles interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721)
Summary:

Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].

Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
13 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 327
Summary:

Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11053

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1)
Summary:

"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig
Date:
[16 July 1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517)
Summary:

Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3)
Summary:

Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.

Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11061

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56)
Summary:

Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
20 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 52
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
National Debt Office
Date:
[after 29 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 73
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 74–7)
Summary:

Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.

Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11066F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of Carnarvon
Date:
20 July 1877
Source of text:
The Times , 23 July 1877, p. 10
Summary:

With 88 others signs a letter supporting the representation of natives in the legislative assembly of the Union of South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 [July 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 78)
Summary:

Thanks for the plants.

Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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