From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[21 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
5 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 164
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 165
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[23 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 166
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 25 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 167
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Maine, H. S.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
19 October [1877 or 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1906
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
12 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 565
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[October–November 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 831
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
24 and 25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 864
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 October 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1262
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 [Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 61–2
Summary:
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:
Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 85
Summary:
Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A43
Summary:
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 21
Summary:
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 491
Summary:
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 23
Summary:
Speculates that the function of "bloom" is to prevent evaporation.
Raised CD’s question about the geographical distribution of glaucous plants at recent botanical meeting.
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