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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 96
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.41, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker about his unpleasant voyage on board the 'Parthia' [to Boston, USA]. It is a screw ship rather than a paddle wheel steamer & the strange motion makes many of the passengers sea sick. Other passengers include: an Irish relation of Mrs [Jane Loring] Gray; a relative of Motley's daughter who married Sir William Harcourt MP the brother of Harcourt of Nuneham; the Strachey's [Sir Richard & Lady Jane Maria]. JDH has spent a lot of time reading in his cabin, he has read: [Baron Thomas Babington] Macaulay, [John] Evelyn's diary, Keye's lives of Eminent Indians, some of [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow's Poems & one volume of [Charles] Lyell's 1st journey in America. Describes the ship's captain as 'a bright intelligent Scotsman' who engaged in debate about the effects of emotion & principles. The ship doctor is an Irish Army surgeon who served in India & is a good storyteller. The long journey & poor travelling conditions have put JDH off another trip across the Atlantic to America unless Hyacinth persuades him. The letter continues after JDH's arrival at Boston Harbour. Motley & [Charles Sprague] Sargent will come to meet JDH & party on a Government steamer & escort them through customs. In a post script JDH adds that he has been made welcome in Cambridge, Massachusetts & will start soon for Colorado. Requests that [John] Smith & [Sir William Turner] Thiselton-Dyer send a corrected copy of the fern list to Professor Sargent.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 106
Summary:
Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.
Notes divisions among German Darwinists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
9 July [1877]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8)
Summary:
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 168
Summary:
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
10 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his wife Hyacinth from Boston, where he is staying with the Sargents. Sargent is in charge of the Harvard Botanic Garden & Arnold Arboretum. JDH is often with the Strachey's. JDH describes Boston: including the hot weather, wide streets, large wooden houses in the suburbs, the cleanliness of the city & good public transport. He lists some of the many kinds of trees in Boston: Hickory, American Ash, Elms, Maples, Oaks, Horse Chestnuts, Limes & Poplars. He comments that the working class people have a good standard of living & are generally well mannered & educated. Comments on the high price of food, except fruit, particularly mentions bananas imported in quantity from the West Indies, they do not taste as good as Kew's bananas. Comments on the 'nasal twang' in the Boston accent. Massachusetts has been settled since 1620, JDH thinks it is likely the nicest part of the United States of America. He describes the University, public park, abundance of flags & monuments. Describes a visit to Belvedere on the coast, common plants included: Cypripedia, Vaccinia, Pyrolas & Orchis, roses, brambles & raspberries. Trees are a mix of pines, Hemlock, Juniper, Spruces & deciduous trees & there are many ferns & mosses. Went to Read Hawthorn's house in Salem to see a museum & natural history institute endowed by Peabody. Describes the zoology summer school held there & a similar botany school at Harvard where the teaching is practical as well as lectures. Describes Sargent's dairy, especially the method of controlling temperature. Describes Forest Hills cemetery & the way U.S.A. cemeteries are run. Visited Mr Hunnewell at his property in Wellesley, describes the garden. It is opposite a property given to the state by Mr Durant for a college to educate women as teachers, also described. Strachey received a telegram from Lord Salisbury re. trouble in India. The party next go to Newport, New York, Cincinnati & the state capital of Colorado south of Colorado Springs.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
11 July [1877]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36174)
Summary:
EK may publish a translation [of "Sketch of an infant"] if he wishes, but CD hardly thinks it deserves the honour.
Glad to hear that Kosmos succeeds fairly well; has found several articles interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Louis Smith and others
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
11 July 1877
Source of text:
L77/7970, unit 153 VPRS 3991 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 July 1877
Source of text:
No. 3069, unit 45, pp. 732-3, VPRS 1187/P outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721)
Summary:
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 or 19] July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 14
Summary:
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
Grey Papers, GL M50(13), Auckland Public Library, Auckland.A copy of M’s visiting card is attached (GL M50(13) att.)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 34
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Alexander Dickson would like to know whether anyone has described the epidermal cells lining the pitcher of Cephalotus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
From:
William John Sterland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14? July 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 374-375
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project