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DCP-LETT-10957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:

"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1194

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

DCP-LETT-10954

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41)
Summary:

Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10955

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10956

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-05-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-77-05-12b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10959

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-05-12

From:
William Allitt
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardnens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-77-05-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
14 May 1877
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10960

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
14 May 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 42)
Summary:

Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.

Worm-castings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
14 May [1877]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526)
Summary:

Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.

Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10963

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10962

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512)
Summary:

Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10964

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC641

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 23, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

SOMERVILLE161

From:
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
To:
Martha Charters Somerville
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
MSD 3 / 127, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-10965

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10966

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5461

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
Museum of Science, Boston: Scudder Archive
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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