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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506)
Summary:

Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 104
Summary:

Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emil Rade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080)
Summary:

Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/43 [9896])
Summary:

Thanks EH for album of photographs of German scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Rade
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 78
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 60–1)
Summary:

Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
17 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 349
Summary:

Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (122)
Summary:

Praises AG’s abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41].

Hopes soon to finish with dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 160–161)
Summary:

Corrects an important misprint in English edition of Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 275, line six from top [but see 10877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 138: 5
Summary:

CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
19 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. 246
Summary:

Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Aguttes (dealers) An Aristophil sale (17 November 2019, lot 43)
Summary:

Sends correction to p. 275 of Cross and self fertilisation [but see letter to Édouard Heckel, 4 March 1877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for his articles [Wesen und Begründung der Abstammungs- und Zuchtwahltheorie (1877)] and the eulogistic manner in which he mentions CD’s name.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 38
Summary:

Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.

Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 119a
Summary:

Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 105
Summary:

Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.

Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 105: A97–8
Summary:

Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 39
Summary:

Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hunter Nicholson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 172: 54
Summary:

Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 5
Summary:

Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?

Photograph album will be late coming.

Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project