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DCP-LETT-11067

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 106: B134–5
Summary:

Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.

Further objections to "voluntary" sexual selection. Believes that he can explain all the phenomena of sexual ornaments and colours by laws of development aided by simple natural selection.

Excited by Thomas Belt’s "oceanic glacier river-damming" hypothesis. The last paper, "Glacial period in the Southern Hemisphere" in the Quarterly Journal of Science is particularly fine.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1877
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B134-135
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 275
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 298-299]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11069

From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 24
Summary:

Asks for details on CD’s Descent references to female infanticide.

JFM’s work on the laws of incest finds strong evidence for man’s relation to animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11068

From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 201
Summary:

Reports a fossil fungus, complete with fossil zoospores, within the vascular bundles of a Lepidodendron from the Coal Measures. The genus is Pythium and it appears no different from living species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11070

From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.12: 184
Summary:

List of plants sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11071

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 99
Summary:

Is acquiring some "maritime and glaucous" plants for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11074

From:
Archibald Henry Sayce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 45
Summary:

Having read CD’s article in Mind ["Biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], AHS questions CD about the child’s first attempts at speech, hoping to throw light on the origin of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11075

From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 202
Summary:

Has examined some sea-kale and iris leaves sent by CD and does not think the scars are caused by fungus but rather through the action of insects. Feels "bloom" may protect leaves from such insect attack.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11117

From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 184
Summary:

Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi leaves.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11118

From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 185
Summary:

Sleep movements of Averrhoa bilimbi.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11078

From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 133
Summary:

Comments on Forms of flowers.

Describes his work on fossil plants collected in the Arctic.

Notes work on Ginkgo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6298

From:
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 15
Summary:

Sends a specimen of Schrankia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11082

From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 25
Summary:

Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11080

From:
Archibald Henry Sayce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 46
Summary:

Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11084

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 21
Summary:

Thanks for Forms of flowers.

In his Monographiae phanerogamarum [vol. 1 (1878)] he discusses transitional forms of dioecism in three genera of Smilax.

Criticises CD’s use of the words "purpose" and "end", but acknowledges that in English they can mean both cause and effect.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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