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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
19 May [1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 July 2004)
Summary:
Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 6)
Summary:
Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Summary:
Acknowledges election to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Summary:
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Crookes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 May 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 139-140
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Drinkwater
Date:
24 May 1877
Source of text:
Shrewsbury Chronicle , 12 January 1894, p. 8
Summary:
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69)
Summary:
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27–8 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 May 1877
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1W/28.98
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 58
Summary:
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 94
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 59
Summary:
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Benton Miller
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
Frances-Henry Library, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles (in a copy of Descent )
Summary:
Perhaps has not laid stress enough on the constitutional differences between males and females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 82–3
Summary:
JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.
JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
