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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[before August 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 884
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 October 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1262
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sigmund Fuchs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221
Summary:

Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sigmund Fuchs
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221v
Summary:

[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Summary:

Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:

Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 or 19] July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 14
Summary:

Discusses an experiment.

His dogs appear to have rabies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe de Stillfried
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 257
Summary:

Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 41
Summary:

Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:

Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 32–5
Summary:

Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 19
Summary:

Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 85
Summary:

Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B94–5
Summary:

Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:

Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 111: B55–8r
Summary:

Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 20
Summary:

Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 357, 359
Summary:

Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18] Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 14
Summary:

TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:

Forwards letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
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