From:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 17
Summary:
Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Cartmell
Date:
[Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 26v
Summary:
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 116
Summary:
Describes case of two varieties of Russian wheat, the kubanka (or White Turkish) and the saxonka, which grow side by side with no intermediate varieties. As kubanka gradually yields place to saxonka, thinks an unusual tendency to jumping variation [saltation] operates; suggests CD urge some young botanist to investigate [see ML 2: 419–22].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 4
Summary:
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1 November 1877
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library: William Allingham Collection: Box 2, Folder 299
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
1 Nov [1877-9]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005)
Summary:
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B101
Summary:
A friend of EAD’s has removed a CD letter pasted into a book given by CD to a library, and kept it lest the author think CD did not like his book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 102
Summary:
A student meeting at Edinburgh University has unanimously voted to nominate CD as candidate for lord rector, if he will agree to stand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
‘Bronsomerulay’ Frazier
Date:
[2 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 48
Summary:
Although honoured by being asked, regrets the state of his health prevents his standing as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 November 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 26, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Albert Duncan Austin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1877
Source of text:
Galton 1878, p. 98
Summary:
His discovery that in the binocular vision of the stereoscope faces can be blended with decided improvement in beauty. Suggests the possibility of experiments in thus photographing the faces of animals, different races and orders of men.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 459–60
Summary:
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 117
Summary:
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (née von Hahn)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 November 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 72
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[7 November 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 97–8
Summary:
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 461–2
Summary:
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[8 November 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 314
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
9 November 1877
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (50)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 118
Summary:
Regarding CD’s inability to find a young botanist to investigate Russian wheat; comments on utter lack of organisation in scientific research in Britain as compared with Germany.
Gives arguments against CD’s suggestion that the saxonka seeds could have long dormancy period which would account for their gradual overtaking of kubanka.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
