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DCP-LETT-10841A

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
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FVM-77-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 February 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 191
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10842

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Hyatt
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007)
Summary:

Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].

Discusses polymorphic species.

Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.

Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.

But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10844A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (April 2006)
Summary:

Sends thanks to Anthropological Society for sending birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10844

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

DCP-LETT-10845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506)
Summary:

Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10846

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

DCP-LETT-10826

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

DCP-LETT-10847

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896])
Summary:

Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Rade
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 78
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10850

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
17 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 349
Summary:

Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122)
Summary:

Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].

Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161)
Summary:

Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 138: 5
Summary:

CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10854

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
19 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. 246
Summary:

Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10852F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Summary:

Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10856

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-02-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 February 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 192
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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