From:
Thomas Palmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 14
Summary:
Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen; Huibert Johannes Veth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202653)
Summary:
A letter from CD’s admirers in the Netherlands, sent with an album of their photographs, in celebration of his sixty-eighth birthday.
Presents an account of early efforts in the Netherlands in the direction of developmental theories, and evidence of the support and enthusiastic reception given CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 193
Summary:
Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 123
Summary:
Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 70
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: A84
Summary:
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 60
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 3
Summary:
Intends to name his son after CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 47
Summary:
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 37
Summary:
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 104
Summary:
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Rade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080)
Summary:
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 38
Summary:
Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 119a
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 105
Summary:
Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.
Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 105: A97–8
Summary:
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 39
Summary:
Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hunter Nicholson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 172: 54
Summary:
Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 5
Summary:
Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?
Photograph album will be late coming.
Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 122
Summary:
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project