From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 457–8
Summary:
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 149
Summary:
Returns [unspecified] enclosure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Cartmell
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 26v
Summary:
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 4
Summary:
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
Date:
[2 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 48
Summary:
Although honoured by being asked, regrets the state of his health prevents his standing as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 459–60
Summary:
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 461–2
Summary:
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 64
Summary:
Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.
Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 65
Summary:
Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.
Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 463
Summary:
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 465
Summary:
Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
13 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304v
Summary:
Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
31 Dec [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 42
Summary:
Reports, as treasurer, on the financial position of the Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Post Office Savings Bank
Date:
1 Jan [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 77
Summary:
Asks to have some funds of the Down Friendly Society transferred.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
8 Sept [1877-80]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 278
Summary:
Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.
Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[before 22 May 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 166
Summary:
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
8 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Summary:
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Willis Clark
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
H. Bruce Rinker PhD (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Alglave, Émile1
- Atkinson, Edward2
- Belt, Thomas1
- Bemmelen, A. A. van1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Bradlaugh, Charles1
- Brunton, T. L.1
- Cartmell, James1
- Clark, J. W. (a)1
- Cohn, F. J.2
- Croll, James1
- Darwin, C. R.81
- Darwin, Francis2
- Darwin, G. H.6
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Down Friendly Society2
- Druitt, Thomas1
- Espinas, Alfred1
- Ffinden, G. S.1
- Frazier, ‘Bronsomerulay’1
- Fuchs, Sigmund1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Heldreich, Theodor von1
- Hooker, J. D.14
- Judd, J. W.1
- King, George1
- Lewes, G. H.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lloyd, Francis1
- Ludlow, J. M. F.1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Moorsom, W. M.1
- National Debt Office1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Post Office Savings Bank1
- Preyer, William1
- Price, John2
- Rade, Emil1
- Rimpau, Wilhelm2
- Robertson, G. C.2
- Saporta, Gaston de1
- Saville-Kent, William1
- Tait, Lawson3
- Torbitt, James1
- Tracy, G. M.1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified1
- Veitch & Sons1
- Weismann, August2
- Zacharias, Otto1
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