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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
