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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
1 Nov [1877-9]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005)
Summary:

Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Cartmell
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 26v
Summary:

Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 4
Summary:

Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
Date:
[2 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 48
Summary:

Although honoured by being asked, regrets the state of his health prevents his standing as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 459–60
Summary:

Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.

Son William is to be married 28 November.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 461–2
Summary:

CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.

CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.

Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Willis Clark
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
H. Bruce Rinker PhD (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43)
Summary:

Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 40
Summary:

CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
[18 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.

Thanks for bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
19 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 328)
Summary:

Deeply grateful for THH’s tribute to him at conferring of LL.D. at Cambridge.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:

Thinks EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent.

Would like him to do Forms of flowers, but Reinwald is afraid to have it translated in the present political state of France.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
21 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
Nature , 29 November 1877, p. 78
Summary:

Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 64
Summary:

Asks GHD to determine whether there are worm-castings in cloisters of [Neville?] Court.

Enjoyed his visit to Cambridge. Asks for newspaper account of the LL.D.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilles Joseph Gustave (Gustave) Dewalque
Date:
23 Nov 1877
Source of text:
Société Géologique de Belgique (autographe Darwin)
Summary:

Honoured to be elected an honorary member of the Société Géologique de Belgique.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 65
Summary:

Thinks he had better not sign GHD’s paper [as a candidate for F.R.S.], since he obviously is no judge of the quality of his work.

Asks if Thomson did not overlook heat generated by the crushing and folding of strata during the refrigeration of the globe.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
24 Nov 1877
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 300–1)
Summary:

Asks exact number of copies of recent printing of Origin.

Approves stereotyping Orchids,

but fears he cannot approve of stereotyping Cross and self-fertilisation and Forms of flowers. It is too soon for the latter, and he is too busy to correct the former.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 463
Summary:

Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.

Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 465
Summary:

Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
28 Nov 1877
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6)
Summary:

On publishing details for various CD books.

Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].

Questions amount of cheque for profits.

Contributor:
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