From:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 51
Summary:
CD made a Foreign Member of the Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B10–11
Summary:
Sends specimens of Saxifraga tridactylites with insects caught by it. Asks if colour of leaves attracts insects.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 57
Summary:
Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Howie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 276
Summary:
Offers key to CD’s theory: fern roots are like little grubs.
Claims to have crossed the Australian Alps where Dr Müller [Ferdinand von Mueller?] failed.
Contributor:
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From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 6
Summary:
Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?
Contributor:
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From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 1
Summary:
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Summary:
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Contributor:
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 83
Summary:
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 137
Summary:
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 114
Summary:
Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.511)
Summary:
Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 388
Summary:
Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 106
Summary:
French translation of Insectivorous plants published.
Climbing plants has not sold well.
Contributor:
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From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 214
Summary:
Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.
Contributor:
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From:
David Benton Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 179
Summary:
Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.
Contributor:
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From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 263
Summary:
Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.
Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 264
Summary:
Is less certain of views in letter of 17 May [10963]. Asserts interest in explaining the presence of "speaking monkeys", which occur in higher as well as lower classes.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 245
Summary:
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
Contributor:
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From:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 52
Summary:
CD elected unanimously as a foreign member of the Dutch Society of Sciences. [See 10970.]
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
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