From:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 17
Summary:
Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B101
Summary:
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Contributor:
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From:
‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 102
Summary:
A student meeting at Edinburgh University has unanimously voted to nominate CD as candidate for lord rector, if he will agree to stand.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 117
Summary:
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 97–8
Summary:
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 118
Summary:
Regarding CD’s inability to find a young botanist to investigate Russian wheat; comments on utter lack of organisation in scientific research in Britain as compared with Germany.
Gives arguments against CD’s suggestion that the saxonka seeds could have long dormancy period which would account for their gradual overtaking of kubanka.
Contributor:
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From:
John Thomas Riches
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 154
Summary:
Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.
Contributor:
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From:
Reuben Aleshire Vance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 180: 1
Summary:
Writes of his observations on the "valves of Houston" in the rectum, which he believes to be rudimentary organs.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 99–100
Summary:
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Contributor:
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From:
James Gerald Joyce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 63–6; DAR 65: 104, 106, 108
Summary:
Memorandum on Silchester. Report by IGJ of investigations carried out at Silchester with Frank and Horace [Darwin] on earthworm activity at the site of a Roman villa. Sections of vertical cuttings at Silchester, traced from the journal of the excavations of the Roman house, and notes on the same.
Contributor:
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From:
Evans Willson Black
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 191
Summary:
Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.
Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Hoare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 140.1: 24
Summary:
A poem in tribute to CD following the award of his Cambridge LL.D.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 348
Summary:
He said nothing in his tribute to CD that was not strictly accurate. Has written out a version as well as he can recollect it and will send CD a copy.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 62
Summary:
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
Contributor:
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From:
William Saunders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 39
Summary:
Sends plant specimens of a hybrid he has raised by crossing two species of Rubus. Describes procedure by which he obtained them. Cites his paper on hybridisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 494
Summary:
Two thousand more copies of Origin to be printed. Has CD any corrections to make?
Type for Cross and self-fertilisation, Orchids, and Forms of flowers must now be broken up. If CD does not object, Murray will have stereotypes made of the three works. Asks for any corrections CD may want embodied.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 63
Summary:
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 495
Summary:
Sends CD his share of profits on Descent and Forms of flowers.
Wants to reprint Cross and self-fertilisation because supply of copies is entirely exhausted.
Congratulates CD on his Cambridge honour [LL.D.].
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 186: 32
Summary:
LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 496
Summary:
Answers CD’s query about number of copies of Origin recently printed. Order to print 2000, rather than 1000, was given after JM’s annual sales showed demand was keeping up.
Cross and self-fertilisation will be stereotyped after CD’s corrections have been made.
Printer will be asked to keep type of Forms of flowers standing, for the present.
Contributor:
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