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From:
Antoine-Marcellin (Marcellin) de Bonnal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 6
Summary:

Asks CD why some living forms have evolved and others have not.

Contributor:
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 20
Summary:

Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sigmund Fuchs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221
Summary:

Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.

Contributor:
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From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 357, 359
Summary:

Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe de Stillfried
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 257
Summary:

Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.

Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B96
Summary:

Would like Price’s address.

Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 148
Summary:

Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?

Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 240
Summary:

TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].

Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 484
Summary:

Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.

1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.

Contributor:
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From:
George Hodgskin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 225
Summary:

Sends nest of a Uruguayan bird.

Contributor:
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From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 5
Summary:

Sends photographs of himself.

Thanks CD for book [Cross and self-fertilisation]

and Francis Darwin for publications.

Contributor:
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From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 4
Summary:

Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.

Haeckel is ill.

German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.

Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93
Summary:

Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 93
Summary:

Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.

Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.

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From:
Allen Stoneham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 259
Summary:

Has read CD’s note on the scarcity of holly berries ["Holly berries" (1877), Collected papers 2: 189–90] resulting from the scarcity of bees. Believes the shortage of bees resulted from the wet year 1875, which led to a very poor honey harvest.

Contributor:
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From:
George Murton Tracy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 174
Summary:

Observations on and explanations of the scarcity of fruit and berries (especially holly berries) evident that year.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 192
Summary:

Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR2.D.1.1)
Summary:

TMR’s address ["Geological time" (Presidential Address, 1876), Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35] not yet published. Will send copy.

Contributor:
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From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 8
Summary:

Asks whether CD has any observations to make on J. R. L. Delboeuf’s article ["Les mathématiques et la transformisme"] in Revue Scientifique [2d ser. 29 (1877): 669–79]. He would be pleased to receive a letter or article for publication.

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From:
Alfred Grugeon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 237
Summary:

Believes CD is in error in his notice on the scarcity of holly berries [Collected papers 2: 189–90] in asserting that holly is not a hermaphrodite.

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