From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 6
Summary:
Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 58
Summary:
"Frank has sent the cards here."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
23 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 1
Summary:
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
20 [Apr 1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976)
Summary:
Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 83
Summary:
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:
25 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Summary:
Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510)
Summary:
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 137
Summary:
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
27 Apr 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Ossian Sars
Date:
29 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 233: Letters to Georg Ossian Sars)
Summary:
Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
30 Apr 1877
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (March 1994); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016)
Summary:
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vasile Conta
Date:
29 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Biblioteca Academiei Române (Manuscripts: Vasile Conta: Regulamente: A.2882)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden
Date:
27 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.142, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 20, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 21, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
14 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.104-105, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alexander William Williamson
Date:
27 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.106, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
20 April 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 April 1877
Source of text:
No. 2029, pp. 21, 1314, unit 44, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Biblioteca Academiei Române, Calea Victoriei 1251
- Cambridge University Library21
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Kotte Autographs (dealers)1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Museum of Czech Literature / Památník národního písemnictví1
- Nasjonalbiblioteket - National Library of Norway1
- Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond6
- UCL Library Services1
- Zeeuws Archief2
- FEWER