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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-07-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
L77/8554, unit 958, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-77-07-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Venables
Date:
25 July 1877
Source of text:
No. 77/28046, unit 439, VPRS 794 central inward registered correspondence, VA 714 Education Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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-11073

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

DCP-LETT-11072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 [July 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 78)
Summary:

Thanks for the plants.

Is doubtful whether he will make out anything about "bloom".

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
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WCP6538

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 July 1877
Source of text:
Sotheby's (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4060

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
27 July 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/123
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
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DCP-LETT-11077F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri)
Summary:

Thanks BvC for his letter and will read the references concerning instinct.

"I can see that the discussion of the Philosophy of Evolution is at present very important."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-07-28b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pearson
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
MS 7419, box 440/4(a), La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-77-07-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
L77/8587, unit 958, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Henry Sayce
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2)
Summary:

Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 July [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 79)
Summary:

Thanks R. I. Lynch for his MS on Averrhoa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11079

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
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