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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 108
Summary:

A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agricultural Gazette
Date:
22 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Agricultural Gazette , 2 April 1877, pp. 324–5
Summary:

Evidence for inheritance of constitutional diseases like scrofula so good that it seems rash to breed tainted animal.

Experiments given in Cross and self-fertilisation show that evil of inbreeding follows from near relations possessing closely similar constitution.

Size and vigour increased by breeding plants and animals from ancestors that lived some generations under different conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 111: A89–90
Summary:

Thanks CD for new [2d] edition of Orchids.

Mentions some observations on dimorphic plants.

Reports on a third species of Pontederia [see Forms of flowers, p. 185].

Describes some unusual grasses.

Reports rumours from southern Brazil concerning the existence of a gigantic subterranean animal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
25 Mar 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36172)
Summary:

Thanks for EK’s book [Werden und Vergehen (1876)].

Regrets he cannot write for EK’s journal, but his son, Francis, may do so.

Suggests EK as editor urge on readers [of Kosmos] the investigation of the causes of variability; why, for instance, do wild Pampas cattle change colour when domesticated? Thinks experiments and observations on recently domesticated animals and cultivated plants would throw light on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
26 Mar 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508)
Summary:

Thanks for specimens [of insects].

Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.

Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
26 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 164–165)
Summary:

Had found out his error [use of "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" in Cross and self-fertilisation] some timeago.

Is now writing on cleistogamic flowers [for Forms of flowers (1877)], and, with it, will have worked up all his old materials on plants. JVC will then have a rest from his labours of translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Saville-Kent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 106
Summary:

Proposes to construct an aquarium on Jersey and wants to use CD’s name in support of the project.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
27 Mar 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (Inserted in Bulwer-Lytton, E. R., Life of Lord Lytton , fol. p. 244, RB 131334 v. 1)
Summary:

Thanks for the reviews, particularly the one in the Times.

CD will be pleased to receive Mr Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Saville-Kent
Date:
28 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 70
Summary:

Regrets he cannot permit his name to be used to support WSK’s aquarium project. If WSK decides to set up an aquarium solely for scientific purposes he would consider subscribing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 195
Summary:

Lithospermum longiflorum has cleistogamous flowers and, unlike other species of genus, it is not dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
30 Mar 1877
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?)
Summary:

Sends autograph as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 153: 92
Summary:

Is "awfully glad" at LD’s appointment [as an instructor at Chatham].

Thinks LD should start reading chemistry "though reading does not do much".

Reports scientific work of George and Frank Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Mar? 1877]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 67)
Summary:

Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project