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DCP-LETT-10935

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 439
Summary:

CD regrets not being able to see JDH.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 58
Summary:

"Frank has sent the cards here."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 59
Summary:

Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Lloyd
Date:
1 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 91
Summary:

CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10952F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113i
Summary:

Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae

and skins of the pigeons,

and forwards a note to Dr Scully.

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DCP-LETT-10964

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:

Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.

Recommends cutting plant stems under water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69)
Summary:

CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.

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DCP-LETT-10978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 95: 442
Summary:

CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Bradlaugh
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 32
Summary:

CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.

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DCP-LETT-10995

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:

Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him

and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 443–4
Summary:

CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.

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DCP-LETT-11008

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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DCP-LETT-11013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:

Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
13 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 327
Summary:

Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11065

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
National Debt Office
Date:
[after 29 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 73
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
26 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 266
Summary:

Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Druitt
Date:
29 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 95
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.

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