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DCP-LETT-11174

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
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WCP2565

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 October 1877
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 150-153
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11176F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitman Bailey
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Steven S. Raab (dealer) (May 2017)
Summary:

Thanks for information, which will be useful if CD ever brings out a corrected edition of his book [Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
10 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

AdeC’s two letters on bloom will be very useful; his remarks on evaporation and absorption seem very just. CD has made few experiments as yet. The investigation has been tedious and difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11177

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
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FVM-77-10-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 October 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 203
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11175

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
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WCP2567

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
10 October 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 154-155
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11179

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 103–5) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees)
Summary:

Movements in cotyledons; outlines tracing technique. [A tracing of movements of red cabbage cotyledon enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11181

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

DCP-LETT-11182

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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FL-1302

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
12 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 565
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

WCP2568

From:
Richard Holt Hutton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 October 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 157-158
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
12 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.3)
Summary:

CD is occupied with vegetable physiology.

Prefers to read MS when published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11183

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

DCP-LETT-11185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Damon
Date:
15 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 212–213)
Summary:

Cannot give information requested. Seems incredible that mere contact should be poisonous.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Date:
15 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.525)
Summary:

Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;

regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11268

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[16 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28)
Summary:

CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11186

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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