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WCP7064

From:
William Crookes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 November 1877
Source of text:
Fournier d'Albe, E. E. (1923). In: The Life of Sir William Crookes . London: T. Fisher Unwin. [p. 273]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11232F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Willis Clark
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
H. Bruce Rinker PhD (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks his correspondent for his letter; hopes he will convey to the president how obliged he is for the invitation, which he cannot accept as it would tire him too much.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11231

From:
John Thomas Riches
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 154
Summary:

Has studied the Comparettia falcata, not mentioned in Orchids, and found it is often self-fertilising.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11232

From:
Reuben Aleshire Vance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 180: 1
Summary:

Writes of his observations on the "valves of Houston" in the rectum, which he believes to be rudimentary organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11234

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 99–100
Summary:

JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.

O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43)
Summary:

Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 40
Summary:

CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11236

From:
James Gerald Joyce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 63–6; DAR 65: 104, 106, 108
Summary:

Memorandum on Silchester. Report by IGJ of investigations carried out at Silchester with Frank and Horace [Darwin] on earthworm activity at the site of a Roman villa. Sections of vertical cuttings at Silchester, traced from the journal of the excavations of the Roman house, and notes on the same.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0467

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP7089

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 November 1877
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1877). Psychological curiosities of scepticism. A reply to Dr. Carpenter. Fraser's Magazine : 16 (96): 694-706 [p. 706]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
[18 Nov 1877]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.

Thanks for bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11239

From:
Henry Jackson
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 209.11: 260
Summary:

Nomenclature for kinds of heliotropism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2569

From:
William Allingham
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 159-160
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3025

From:
Henry Fawcett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
19 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 328)
Summary:

Deeply grateful for THH’s tribute to him at conferring of LL.D. at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11241

From:
Evans Willson Black
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 191
Summary:

Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.

Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-11-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Harry Ord
Date:
20 November 1877
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's Office, letters received, Acc. 36, vol. 852, ff. 119-20, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1237

From:
Geikie, James
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 November 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1905
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11242

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:

Thinks EH’s translation of Cross and self-fertilisation [1877] is excellent.

Would like him to do Forms of flowers, but Reinwald is afraid to have it translated in the present political state of France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11243

From:
Charles Hoare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 140.1: 24
Summary:

A poem in tribute to CD following the award of his Cambridge LL.D.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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