From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 190
Summary:
Sends extract abusing CD, from a sermon by a Greek priest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 32–5
Summary:
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Lutley Sclater
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 76
Summary:
Encloses a memorandum [missing] drawn up by W. H. Flower, Huxley, and himself, defending Charles Wyville Thomson against an attack made upon him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Bradlaugh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 275
Summary:
Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 122
Summary:
Sends holly specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 53; DAR 47: 139–42
Summary:
Sends MS notes on intercrossing.
Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.
Has made a number of grafts at Kew.
Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Frédéric Martins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 63
Summary:
All young intelligent French naturalists support CD. But the professors are afraid of being called materialists, atheists, or communists.
A paper of his ["Sur l’origine paléontologique", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 84 (1877): 534–7] met with silence, except from Bureau. If only France had become Protestant!
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 197
Summary:
Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 2
Summary:
Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 109
Summary:
Cites a misprint in Orchids.
Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 39
Summary:
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 69: A12–13
Summary:
Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:
Forwards letters.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 86–7
Summary:
JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 88–9
Summary:
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55
Summary:
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
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:
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:
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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