From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 110
Summary:
Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 192
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Churton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 148
Summary:
Report of child with tail and man with four nipples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 106: B136–7
Summary:
Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 83
Summary:
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Warner Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 156
Summary:
An example of inheritance confined to one sex.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 234
Summary:
In Descent [1: 12] CD discusses intoxication among animals. South African elephants reportedly eat a plant that makes them wild.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Eugene Nipher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 172: 71
Summary:
Cites another example of inheritance of maternal impressions.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 110
Summary:
Sends a list of errata in Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 122
Summary:
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 235
Summary:
Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.
Contributor:
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From:
Horatio Piggot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 44
Summary:
Criticises passages of Insectivorous plants. Suggests plants be weighed before and after feeding to prove they have gained nourishment.
Contributor:
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From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 30–1
Summary:
Notes the movements of leaves of Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora in response to light intensity.
Contributor:
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From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 26
Summary:
Young Belgian students [L. A. Errera and Gustave Gevaert] ask CD to read their paper, which summarises Cross and self-fertilisation. They criticise CD’s views on the comparative effects of crossing flowers on the same stem and fertilisation of a flower by its own pollen ["Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs", Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 17 (1878): 38–181, 182–248].
Contributor:
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From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 291
Summary:
Describes data relating to variability of Primula elatior.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 169
Summary:
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 123
Summary:
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84
Summary:
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 198
Summary:
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
Contributor:
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From:
William Whitman Bailey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 16
Summary:
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
Contributor:
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