From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Lloyd
Date:
1 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 91
Summary:
CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 114
Summary:
Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[2? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 92
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 93
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113i
Summary:
Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae
and skins of the pigeons,
and forwards a note to Dr Scully.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 388
Summary:
Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?
Contributor:
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 245: 313
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 106
Summary:
French translation of Insectivorous plants published.
Climbing plants has not sold well.
Contributor:
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From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 214
Summary:
Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.
Contributor:
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From:
David Benton Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 179
Summary:
Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.
Contributor:
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From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 263
Summary:
Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.
Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
Contributor:
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From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 264
Summary:
Is less certain of views in letter of 17 May [10963]. Asserts interest in explaining the presence of "speaking monkeys", which occur in higher as well as lower classes.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 245
Summary:
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
Contributor:
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From:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 52
Summary:
CD elected unanimously as a foreign member of the Dutch Society of Sciences. [See 10970.]
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[before 22 May 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 166
Summary:
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196
Summary:
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Contributor:
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