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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
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
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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:
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:
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
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
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 65
Summary:
Thanks CD for his specimen of "self-containedness". Some of the bromeliads will flower under similar treatment, but MTM does not know whether they seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 499, DAR 210.11: 6
Summary:
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 6
Summary:
Sends the name of a plant: Cotyledon stolonifera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
13 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304v
Summary:
Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 218
Summary:
Offers to sell CD a portrait of Dr Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 34
Summary:
He has heard CD is about to be elected to the Académie des Sciences.
Cross and self-fertilisation, with its emphasis on insect pollination, helps explain the problem he has worked on for so long: i.e., the rapid diversification of angiosperms in the fossil record occurs in conjunction with the diversification of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Charles Conybeare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 222
Summary:
JCC and his young daughter have observed that blossoms of Drosera rotundifolia open in afternoon, which contradicts Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
August Wilhelm Malm
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 34
Summary:
Thanks for Origin, 6th ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 111
Summary:
A misprint in Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 303
Summary:
BJS was pleased to see CD’s son [William] and his wife at Charles Langton’s.
His own son is preparing for marriage.
Reports meeting a former Beagle shipmate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 161
Summary:
Informs CD of his work on the "unity of language in its development".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
29 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 245
Summary:
Reports on potatoes grown from Torbitt’s seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project