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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[23 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 166
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 66
Summary:
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 50
Summary:
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Morell Holmes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 255
Summary:
Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 October 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 25, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B14–15
Summary:
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
24 and 25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 864
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 62)
Summary:
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 149
Summary:
Returns [unspecified] enclosure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
24 October 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.8, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:
Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Atkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 57
Summary:
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 25 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
25 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210)
Summary:
Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.
CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597)
Summary:
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Saville-Kent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 6
Summary:
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 455–6
Summary:
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jesse Portman Chesney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 139
Summary:
Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project