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DCP-LETT-11142

From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 26
Summary:

Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., 1873–81: ff. 95–6)
Summary:

Wants a Euphorbia to test for leaf movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11143

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
16 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 168–169)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for correcting a bad blunder in Forms of flowers.

His health fairly good; has been able to work "pretty hard".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
18 Sept 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521)
Summary:

Agrees to look over MS.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11145

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 291
Summary:

Describes data relating to variability of Primula elatior.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11146

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 169
Summary:

Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11147

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 123
Summary:

Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.

Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.

Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]

and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8)
Summary:

Thanks for Euphorbia.

Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11150

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84
Summary:

Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11152

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/27)
Summary:

Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11155

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 198
Summary:

Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.

Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11156F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L)
Summary:

Thanks for Die niederen Pilze (Nägeli 1877).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99)
Summary:

Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11157

From:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 16
Summary:

Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.

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DCP-LETT-11158

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
Date:
29 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524)
Summary:

Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11160

From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 27
Summary:

Sending MS.

Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.

Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11159

From:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 20
Summary:

Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.

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