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DCP-LETT-11053

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1)
Summary:

"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC209

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
15 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.32-33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP2353

From:
Alfred Hart Everett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 July 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 376-377
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig
Date:
[16 July 1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517)
Summary:

Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11056

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
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WCP2562

From:
Eugene Crowell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 July 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC210

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
17 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FL-0579

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

DCP-LETT-11061

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56)
Summary:

Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3)
Summary:

Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.

Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11060

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

DCP-LETT-11063

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
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DCP-LETT-11066F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of Carnarvon
Date:
20 July 1877
Source of text:
The Times , 23 July 1877, p. 10
Summary:

With 88 others signs a letter supporting the representation of natives in the legislative assembly of the Union of South Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11064

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
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FL-0792

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

DCP-LETT-11066

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 74–7)
Summary:

Describes experiments on sensitivity of plant leaves to water.

Frank [Darwin] has found that Drosera leaves fed with meat contain more starch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0240

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

JHC211

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
23 July 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.35-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1973

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
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