From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169
Summary:
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
13 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 327
Summary:
Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 138
Summary:
Sends work on dorsal eyes of Onchidium ["Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 107
Summary:
Thanks CD for permission to print ["Sketch of an infant"] in Kosmos.
Discusses children’s ability to distinguish colours.
Describes disagreements among German supporters of CD. Discusses reaction of German protestants to Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 98
Summary:
Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 219.4: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.2: 159
Summary:
Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Fitch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 128
Summary:
Queries about cauliflowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
20 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 52
Summary:
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[21 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 152
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[23? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
26 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 266
Summary:
Comments on paper by Francis Darwin ["Glandular hairs of the common teasel", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 17 (1877): 169–74, 245–72].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
