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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3] February 1877
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 144
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[28 February 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 145
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 February [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
22 February 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 822
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
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
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
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
Addressee
Correspondent
- Bailey, Frederick2
- Bates, H. W.1
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer1
- Beger, Karl1
- Bemmelen, A. A. van2
- Bentham, George1
- Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte1
- Carus, J. V.2
- Christie, William1
- Colby, John1
- Darwin, C. R.53
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Dill, O.1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Down Friendly Society1
- Fish, D. T.1
- Galton, Francis2
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gibbs, John2
- Gray, Asa4
- Grugeon, Alfred1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haast, Julius von1
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Heckel, Édouard1
- Heer, Oswald1
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand von1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Hyatt, Alpheus1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jacobson, Miss1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Linnean Society1
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Marcou, Jules1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von4
- Nature1
- Newton, Alfred2
- Nicholson, Hunter1
- Palmer, Thomas1
- Rade, Emil2
- Reade, T. M.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.2
- Rekowsky, Franz von1
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Schneider, Hugo1
- Scott, John1
- Tait, Lawson2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Unidentified1
- Unknown1
- Veth, H. J.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Weismann, August1
- Zacharias, Otto2
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