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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[October–November 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 831
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 85
Summary:
Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A43
Summary:
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 491
Summary:
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 21
Summary:
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
5 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 164
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 23
Summary:
Speculates that the function of "bloom" is to prevent evaporation.
Raised CD’s question about the geographical distribution of glaucous plants at recent botanical meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 126
Summary:
Thanks CD for acknowledging receipt of JDC’s book The antelope and deer of America [1877].
Castration suppresses deer antlers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 28
Summary:
CD has made clear that in Cross and self-fertilisation he had not intended to suggest that autogamie (fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen) is superior to gitonogamie (fertilisation of a flower by one on the same plant).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 160
Summary:
Sends article and photograph of abnormally hairy family.
Mentions death of his student, Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
11 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 422
Summary:
Thanks GdeS for communicating his discovery. It is especially important at a time when several naturalists have declared that development occurs quite suddenly at intervals. Joseph Le Conte in N. America urges that even new families and orders are developed within an extremely short period.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 492
Summary:
Another issue of Origin will be needed for Murray’s annual sale. Has CD any corrections?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Damon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 36
Summary:
Asks whether CD considers it possible that a mollusc could poison anyone on contact, as RD has heard from missionaries about a certain South Sea variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
12 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 565
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 107
Summary:
Pleased CD is satisfied with translation of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends £20 royalties for Insectivorous plants (700 sold).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Austin Rogers Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 182
Summary:
Gives a possible explanation of exceptions to CD’s observation [Descent, ch. 7] that characters correlated with one sex tend to appear late in life.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 493
Summary:
Electrotypes and heliotypes can now be sent to Hjalmar Linnström, since payment is guaranteed by the Swedish Consul.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 [Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 61–2
Summary:
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project