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:
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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:
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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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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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?
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Émile Alglave
Date:
[after 13 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 8v
Summary:
Has not seen Delboeuf’s article [see 10786] and would be obliged for a copy. He is not likely to have any comments as he is engaged in other work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks DN for references.
The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Summary:
Has received from the region of the River Uruguay in S. America "a wonderful nest" of a bird called "El boyero", said to perch on the back of cattle and horses.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304
Summary:
Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
17 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 20 January 1877, p. 83
Summary:
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9)
Summary:
Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation
and for information about Mussaenda.
Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.
Contributor:
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