From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Summary:
Acknowledges election to the Society.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Summary:
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Drinkwater
Date:
24 May 1877
Source of text:
Shrewsbury Chronicle , 12 January 1894, p. 8
Summary:
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27–8 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Benton Miller
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles (in a copy of Descent )
Summary:
Perhaps has not laid stress enough on the constitutional differences between males and females.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 May [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A26)
Summary:
Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].
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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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
3 June 1877
Source of text:
Phillips (dealers) (June 1995)
Summary:
Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 June [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119)
Summary:
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515)
Summary:
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Huntsman
Date:
5 June [1877]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Roberts
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections (Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection)
Summary:
Sends six photographs of himself as a contribution to correspondent’s charity.
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6582: 377)
Summary:
Pleased that a Grace has been submitted to confer on CD an honorary LL.D.; hopes his health will permit him to attend the ceremony.
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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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 June [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516)
Summary:
Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.
Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 39
Summary:
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
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