From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 90–1
Summary:
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B12–13
Summary:
Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.
Contributor:
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From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 36
Summary:
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
Contributor:
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From:
David Clipson (Clipson) Wray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 181: 162
Summary:
States that the sheep of the Cape will produce twins only when herbage is plentiful before rutting-time.
Makes some observations on bustards and baboons.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 92
Summary:
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.
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From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 183
Summary:
Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.
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From:
Alfred James Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 58
Summary:
Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.
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From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 241
Summary:
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
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From:
Charles Edwin Bessey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 178
Summary:
Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 488
Summary:
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
Contributor:
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From:
William Roberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 185
Summary:
He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.
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From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 115
Summary:
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 112
Summary:
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
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From:
Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 216
Summary:
Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 34
Summary:
On painful state of CD’s reception in France.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 489
Summary:
"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.
Contributor:
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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 196
Summary:
Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.
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From:
Max Schlesinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 54
Summary:
Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.
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From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 231
Summary:
Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].
Contributor:
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From:
John Brigg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 309
Summary:
Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.
Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.
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