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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 216
Summary:

Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 34
Summary:

On painful state of CD’s reception in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 112
Summary:

Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 489
Summary:

"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 196
Summary:

Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 231
Summary:

Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Max Schlesinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 54
Summary:

Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 July [1877?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963)
Summary:

Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[5 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 95
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Constantin James
Date:
5 July 1877
Source of text:
James 1892, p. [V]
Summary:

Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brigg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 309
Summary:

Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.

Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 70
Summary:

Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Louis Bernays
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 176
Summary:

Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.

Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.

Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 199
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 197-198
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 July? 1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85)
Summary:

Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project