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DCP-LETT-11187

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11008

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

DCP-LETT-11188

From:
George Oswald Wight
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 181: 101
Summary:

Sends notes on expression [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11190

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 95–6
Summary:

JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1238

From:
Maine, H. S.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
19 October [1877 or 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1906
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11191

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature , 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9
Summary:

Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.

Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.

Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.

Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.

Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11194

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 167: 33
Summary:

JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11192

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 124
Summary:

Would like to see the Kosmos article.

Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.

Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC256

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
20 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.93-94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 26 (EH 88205964)
Summary:

Has read JT’s address ["Science and man", The Times, 2 October 1877, p. 8]. What JT says about CD honours and pleases him. JT’s short character of Faraday is beautiful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0244

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[21 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 457–8
Summary:

Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11161

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:

Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.

Contributor:
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FL-0804

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 165
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1529

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 October 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1262
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.

Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Agnes Taylor
Date:
22 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Morton Pepper (private collection)
Summary:

CD sends £5.5.0 with a formal note "as some aid to Mrs Beke", but does not wish to subscribe for Dr Beke’s work on Mt Sinai.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
22 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
James G. Zimmer (private collection)
Summary:

Specimen ruined in transit.

Drosera spathulata modified form of D. rotundifolia.

Sends reference regarding Bolbophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11204

From:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4
Summary:

Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].

Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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