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From:
Darwin nee Wedgwood, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[winter 1877–8]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Richard William Griffiths
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 227
Summary:

A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 498
Summary:

Reprint of Origin will bring number to 19500 – so title-page may safely read "Twentieth Thousand".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 and 2 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.

Regrets failure of graft experiments.

Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
2 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155)
Summary:

Working hard on physiology of plants.

His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.

George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jacobus Albertus Willebrordus (Jacob) Moleschott
Date:
[2 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Laage 1980, p. 106
Summary:

Is obliged to JAWM for the honour done in sending CD his Der Kreislauf des Lebens (1877).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.

Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 December 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 28, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
3 December [1877–80]
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[3 December 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Aleshire Vance
Date:
4 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library
Summary:

Thanks RAV for valuable letter [11232]. CD too ignorant of anatomy to form a decided opinion, but is inclined to attribute spiral folds to reversion and the valves to partial abortion of the fold. Asks RAV to verify by examining lower intestine of an opossum for the structure. If missing he would hesitate to allude to reversion. If RAV can prove the nature of these remnants it would be a conclusion of much interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
4 December 1877
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (52)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527)
Summary:

Discusses planting onions for experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[6–12 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 December 1877, p. 805
Summary:

Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Alva Edison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 1
Summary:

Offers to send green insects that give off a powerful odour of napthalene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Walter Elliot
Date:
8 December 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/23/1 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 176
Summary:

Sends a drawing [missing] of alleged fossil man found in Colorado. JM is certain it is a hoax perpetrated by P. T. Barnum. It was designed to conform to CD’s well-known views of man’s ancestor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
9 December 1877
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 198]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitman Bailey
Date:
10 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Alfred Williams Anthony collection: box 7, folder 10)
Summary:

"Many thanks for the specimens which will be very useful whenever a new Edition is required."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 159
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Die selbst-sterilität des Roggens", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6 (1877): 1073–6] on self-sterility in Secale cereale. AWR was wrong in claiming Beta vulgaris was perfectly self-sterile.

Reports results of crossing wheat varieties. In the first generation offspring are always uniform; some are intermediate, some resemble one parent. In the second generation, on the contrary, he got a diversity of parental and intermediate forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project