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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4)
Summary:

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
6 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks for another part of Australian orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
11 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385a
Summary:

Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
14 Sept 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks RIL for notes.

Asks about movement of Euphorbia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
14 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., 1873–81: ff. 95–6)
Summary:

Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
16 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 168–169)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for correcting a bad blunder in Forms of flowers.

His health fairly good; has been able to work "pretty hard".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
18 Sept 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521)
Summary:

Agrees to look over MS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.

Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]

and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8)
Summary:

Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/27)
Summary:

Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.

Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99)
Summary:

Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L)
Summary:

Thanks for Die niederen Pilze (Nägeli 1877).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
Date:
29 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524)
Summary:

Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
8 Sept [1877-80]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 278
Summary:

Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.

Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.

Contributor:
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