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DCP-LETT-11078

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

DCP-LETT-11065

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
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DCP-LETT-6298

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
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FVM-77-07-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
30 July 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11082

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

DCP-LETT-11080

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

DCP-LETT-11081

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

DCP-LETT-11084

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

DCP-LETT-11083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 July [1877]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 546)
Summary:

THF is seeking advice regarding the selection of an entomologist to carry out some duties [apparently pest destruction].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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