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DCP-LETT-11208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597)
Summary:

CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11209

From:
William Saville-Kent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 6
Summary:

Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11209A

From:
Edward Atkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 57
Summary:

CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 455–6
Summary:

Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:

Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11213

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 60–1
Summary:

Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.

Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11214

From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 236
Summary:

Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11215

From:
Jesse Portman Chesney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 139
Summary:

Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 60
Summary:

Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11216A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:

His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
31 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11217A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Adolf Viktor (Emil) Ertl
Date:
[31 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 634 26 November 1985)
Summary:

Sends autograph and wishes EE success in his scientific studies and career.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11268

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[16 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Summary:

CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11302F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1730

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
24 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1731

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC202

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
-[10]-[1877]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.16-17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC256

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
20 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.93-94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC643

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 October 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 25, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-77-10-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Lord Arthur Russell
Date:
5 October 1877
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, RGS correspondence 1871-80, Mueller, Sir Ferdinand
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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