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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].
Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Returns [unspecified] enclosure.
Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]
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.
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
