From:
Thomas Palmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 14
Summary:
Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
[after 1 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 69
Summary:
Tells of his pleasure and surprise at reading JWJ’s article ["Darwin’s ""Geological observations"" ", Nature 15 (1877): 289–90].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3] February 1877
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 144
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 193
Summary:
Sends specimen of Gilia aggregata and will try to get Phlox subulata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 123
Summary:
Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 70
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: A84
Summary:
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 60
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 3
Summary:
Intends to name his son after CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 31
Summary:
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 47
Summary:
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 37
Summary:
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 104
Summary:
Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Rade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080)
Summary:
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Rade
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 78
Summary:
Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
17 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 349
Summary:
Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 138: 5
Summary:
CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
19 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. 246
Summary:
Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 38
Summary:
Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.
Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 119a
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project