From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Fairfax & Sons
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 August 1877
Source of text:
M77/10009, unit 982, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 9
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 August 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 201
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
22 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.20, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.40a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[before 24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 83–4)
Summary:
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 85
Summary:
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Clement Wragge
Date:
24 August 1877
Source of text:
MS 11124, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 101
Summary:
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Canestrini
Date:
26 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection), subsequently offered for sale by Marsha Malinowski (dealer), New York (https://marshamalinowski.com/press/, accessed 18 December 2020)
Summary:
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 82
Summary:
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.173, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
27 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26)
Summary:
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Herman (Herman) Semmig
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 134
Summary:
Sends a published diary [Das Kind, 2d ed. (1876)] in which he recorded the early growth of his first child. Hopes it may find an English translator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 186
Summary:
Observations on movements of leaves of Erythrina crista-galli in green-house and out of doors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 126
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Schwerzfeger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 201: 35
Summary:
Asks for a loan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Austin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 August [1877?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 378
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project