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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1)
Summary:

Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.

CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
4 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523)
Summary:

Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.

Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].

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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2)
Summary:

Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Hjalmar (Hjalmar) Linnström
Date:
7 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00522)
Summary:

Gives permission to translate Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 126
Summary:

Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].

Castration suppresses deer antlers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 160
Summary:

Sends article and photograph of abnormally hairy family.

Mentions death of his student, Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

AdeC’s two letters on bloom will be very useful; his remarks on evaporation and absorption seem very just. CD has made few experiments as yet. The investigation has been tedious and difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitman Bailey
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Steven S. Raab (dealer) (May 2017)
Summary:

Thanks for information, which will be useful if CD ever brings out a corrected edition of his book [Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 28
Summary:

CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees)
Summary:

Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
11 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 422
Summary:

Thanks GdeS for communicating his discovery. It is especially important at a time when several naturalists have declared that development occurs quite suddenly at intervals. Joseph Le Conte in N. America urges that even new families and orders are developed within an extremely short period.

Contributor:
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