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DCP-LETT-11263

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.

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DCP-LETT-11264

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:
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DCP-LETT-11265

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

DCP-LETT-11266

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

DCP-LETT-11267A

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

DCP-LETT-11283

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

JHC646

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

DCP-LETT-11269

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:
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DCP-LETT-11270

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

DCP-LETT-11294

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

DCP-LETT-11271

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

JHC984

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

DCP-LETT-11272

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

DCP-LETT-11274

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

DCP-LETT-11273

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

DCP-LETT-11276

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
11 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 297–8)
Summary:

Sends corrected sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. How many copies will be printed? Asks whether he is correct in thinking that he has not been paid for the July printing.

Plans to correct Forms of flowers when new edition is needed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11276A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Clinton Hart Merriam
Date:
[11 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Waverly Auctions (dealers) (9 March 1983)
Summary:

Thanks him for sending his Birds of Connecticut.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Sieveking
Date:
11 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528)
Summary:

Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11277

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
Date:
12 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS 58)
Summary:

Writes for CD, thanking TFC for his pamphlet on Selliera. CD was so interested that he ventured to forward it to Nature for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4888

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.

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