From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 95
Summary:
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 25
Summary:
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 July [1877]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)
Summary:
THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 21
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.
Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 184
Summary:
Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 185
Summary:
Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 15
Summary:
Sends a specimen of Schrankia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
15 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.32-33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
17 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
23 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.35-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
10 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his wife Hyacinth from Boston, where he is staying with the Sargents. Sargent is in charge of the Harvard Botanic Garden & Arnold Arboretum. JDH is often with the Strachey's. JDH describes Boston: including the hot weather, wide streets, large wooden houses in the suburbs, the cleanliness of the city & good public transport. He lists some of the many kinds of trees in Boston: Hickory, American Ash, Elms, Maples, Oaks, Horse Chestnuts, Limes & Poplars. He comments that the working class people have a good standard of living & are generally well mannered & educated. Comments on the high price of food, except fruit, particularly mentions bananas imported in quantity from the West Indies, they do not taste as good as Kew's bananas. Comments on the 'nasal twang' in the Boston accent. Massachusetts has been settled since 1620, JDH thinks it is likely the nicest part of the United States of America. He describes the University, public park, abundance of flags & monuments. Describes a visit to Belvedere on the coast, common plants included: Cypripedia, Vaccinia, Pyrolas & Orchis, roses, brambles & raspberries. Trees are a mix of pines, Hemlock, Juniper, Spruces & deciduous trees & there are many ferns & mosses. Went to Read Hawthorn's house in Salem to see a museum & natural history institute endowed by Peabody. Describes the zoology summer school held there & a similar botany school at Harvard where the teaching is practical as well as lectures. Describes Sargent's dairy, especially the method of controlling temperature. Describes Forest Hills cemetery & the way U.S.A. cemeteries are run. Visited Mr Hunnewell at his property in Wellesley, describes the garden. It is opposite a property given to the state by Mr Durant for a college to educate women as teachers, also described. Strachey received a telegram from Lord Salisbury re. trouble in India. The party next go to Newport, New York, Cincinnati & the state capital of Colorado south of Colorado Springs.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.41, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker about his unpleasant voyage on board the 'Parthia' [to Boston, USA]. It is a screw ship rather than a paddle wheel steamer & the strange motion makes many of the passengers sea sick. Other passengers include: an Irish relation of Mrs [Jane Loring] Gray; a relative of Motley's daughter who married Sir William Harcourt MP the brother of Harcourt of Nuneham; the Strachey's [Sir Richard & Lady Jane Maria]. JDH has spent a lot of time reading in his cabin, he has read: [Baron Thomas Babington] Macaulay, [John] Evelyn's diary, Keye's lives of Eminent Indians, some of [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow's Poems & one volume of [Charles] Lyell's 1st journey in America. Describes the ship's captain as 'a bright intelligent Scotsman' who engaged in debate about the effects of emotion & principles. The ship doctor is an Irish Army surgeon who served in India & is a good storyteller. The long journey & poor travelling conditions have put JDH off another trip across the Atlantic to America unless Hyacinth persuades him. The letter continues after JDH's arrival at Boston Harbour. Motley & [Charles Sprague] Sargent will come to meet JDH & party on a Government steamer & escort them through customs. In a post script JDH adds that he has been made welcome in Cambridge, Massachusetts & will start soon for Colorado. Requests that [John] Smith & [Sir William Turner] Thiselton-Dyer send a corrected copy of the fern list to Professor Sargent.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 197-198
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 199
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 July 1877
Source of text:
No. 3069, unit 45, pp. 732-3, VPRS 1187/P outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
Grey Papers, GL M50(13), Auckland Public Library, Auckland.A copy of M’s visiting card is attached (GL M50(13) att.)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Venables
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
No. 77/28046, unit 439, VPRS 794 central inward registered correspondence, VA 714 Education Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
L77/8554, unit 958, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
L77/8587, unit 958, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Correspondent
Date
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Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Auckland Public Library1
- Bodleian Libraries1
- Bonhams (dealers)1
- Cambridge University Library49
- Huntington Library1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond19
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- State Library Victoria1
- University of Rochester Library1
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf1
- V&A / Wedgwood Collection, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent1
- Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung1
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich1
- FEWER