From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Lloyd
Date:
1 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 91
Summary:
CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
2 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wyville Thomson
Date:
3 May 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 61)
Summary:
Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
4 May [1877]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a)
Summary:
Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/15/112)
Summary:
Sends MS about pigeons.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
7 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113i
Summary:
Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae
and skins of the pigeons,
and forwards a note to Dr Scully.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:
"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41)
Summary:
Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
14 May 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 42)
Summary:
Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.
Worm-castings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
14 May [1877]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526)
Summary:
Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.
Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
19 May [1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 July 2004)
Summary:
Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 6)
Summary:
Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[before 22 May 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 166
Summary:
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Summary:
Acknowledges election to the Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Summary:
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Drinkwater
Date:
24 May 1877
Source of text:
Shrewsbury Chronicle , 12 January 1894, p. 8
Summary:
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69)
Summary:
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27–8 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Contributor:
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