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DCP-LETT-10969

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196
Summary:

Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.

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FL-0236

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[2? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0237

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0461

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 92
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0462

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 93
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0463

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 94
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0786

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 146
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0787

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[31 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 147
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1194

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 245: 313
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-10520F

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.

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DCP-LETT-10947

From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 114
Summary:

Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.

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DCP-LETT-10948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Lloyd
Date:
1 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 91
Summary:

CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.

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DCP-LETT-10952F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113i
Summary:

Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae

and skins of the pigeons,

and forwards a note to Dr Scully.

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DCP-LETT-10953

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 388
Summary:

Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?

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DCP-LETT-10955

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 106
Summary:

French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

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DCP-LETT-10956

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 214
Summary:

Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.

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DCP-LETT-10958

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 58
Summary:

Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.

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DCP-LETT-10959

From:
David Benton Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 179
Summary:

Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.

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DCP-LETT-10963

From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 263
Summary:

Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.

Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.

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DCP-LETT-10964

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:

Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.

Recommends cutting plant stems under water.

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