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DCP-LETT-10234F

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

DCP-LETT-10337

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sigmund Fuchs
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221v
Summary:

[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
28 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113)
Summary:

Has signed certificates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 41
Summary:

Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:

Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]

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DCP-LETT-10752

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 19
Summary:

Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:

Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10756

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
[c. 11 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051)
Summary:

The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10759F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 July? 1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85)
Summary:

Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10764F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
1 Jan 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8)
Summary:

A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10766

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63)
Summary:

Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.

CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118)
Summary:

Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].

Is glad of the notice about black pigs.

Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;

thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
3 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 January 1877, p. 19
Summary:

Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 Jan 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504)
Summary:

Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10774

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Howard Miller
Date:
10 Jan 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.505)
Summary:

Declines offer involving embryological studies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10781

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murton Tracy
Date:
[after 11 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 174r
Summary:

GMT’s observations [on scarcity of holly berries] throw doubt on CD’s conclusions [see Collected papers 2: 189–90].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 348
Summary:

Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.

Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10785

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 165
Summary:

CD asks if he may call next day for talk.

Contributor:
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