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:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 291
Summary:
Describes data relating to variability of Primula elatior.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 169
Summary:
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 123
Summary:
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84
Summary:
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
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:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 198
Summary:
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 16
Summary:
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
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:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 20
Summary:
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 27
Summary:
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sociedade de geographia de Lisboa
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 55
Summary:
CD named corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Lisbon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 110
Summary:
Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 30–1
Summary:
Notes the movements of leaves of Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora in response to light intensity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
