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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Druitt
Date:
29 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 95
Summary:
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society to ask whether the Bank will act as their agent in withdrawing funds from the National Debt Office.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
National Debt Office
Date:
[after 29 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 73
Summary:
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society about withdrawing some funds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 95
Summary:
Makes suggestions regarding statement on potato experiments to be published in Daily News.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project