From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Summary:
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Leggett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: B127–8
Summary:
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic William Pim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 73
Summary:
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 120
Summary:
Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B97–8
Summary:
[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 36
Summary:
Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 111: B55–8r
Summary:
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B94–5
Summary:
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 106: B132–3
Summary:
Thanks for new edition of Orchids.
The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].
The part played by carbon in geological changes.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 January 1877
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B132-133
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 274
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 297-298]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18] Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 14
Summary:
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 215
Summary:
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 74–6
Summary:
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 24
Summary:
Has observed the scarcity of humble-bees and subsequently of holly berries this year. But does not think humble-bees ever visit holly flowers, however plentiful they may be.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 131
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s frank criticism of his views.
Hooker advises him to apply for aid to work out glaciation between Pyrenees and Alps.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 106
Summary:
Lists misprints in Cross and self-fertilisation.
Sends observations and references relevant to a new edition of Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
George Paul
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 31
Summary:
Suggests CD write to Mr Fisher, a nurseryman, on his experiments with crossing varieties of holly.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph John Murphy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 324
Summary:
Requests permission to use illustrations from F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin in the new edition [of his Habit and intelligence, 2d ed. (1879)].
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: A26–7
Summary:
Thanks CD for calling attention to a "considerable error" in his observations on Hottonia fertility [in Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 52.]
Contributor:
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From:
August Wilhelm Malm
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 33
Summary:
Sends his papers [unspecified].
Linnaeus was a "Darwinist" because he placed the simians in the genus Homo.
Contributor:
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