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DCP-LETT-11127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11158

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin
Date:
29 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524)
Summary:

Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1)
Summary:

Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.

CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11207

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

DCP-LETT-11233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 43)
Summary:

Asks for Cassia seed for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 Jan 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44)
Summary:

CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.

Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9863F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
19 and 21 Feb 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 57940 f. 106)
Summary:

Will call on addressee when he is next in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
27 Mar 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 45)
Summary:

Thanks FM for letter of 22 Feb [not found] on Lepidoptera. Will send it to Entomological Society to be read. FM’s earlier letters produced best discussions of the season.

Thanks for seeds of Viola.

He and Francis [Darwin] are at work on biology of seedling plants and wish to observe how the flowers penetrate the earth.

The Pontederia did not germinate, probably pressed too much [in post].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 46)
Summary:

Has forwarded FM’s letter to Raphael Meldola.

Thanks for information on Mimosa.

Would like to know how Cassia behaves in the rain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
24 July 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 47)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds

and information about earthworms.

Is working hard at movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11915

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albin Gaertner
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4312/2)
Summary:

Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:

Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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