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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[October–November 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 831
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
-[10]-[1877]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.16-17, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 85
Summary:
Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A43
Summary:
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
4 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523)
Summary:
Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.
Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 October 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 144-147
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 491
Summary:
About 150 copies remain of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 21
Summary:
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 October 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 202
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Lord Arthur Russell
Date:
5 October 1877
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, RGS correspondence 1871-80, Mueller, Sir Ferdinand
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
5 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 164
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Hjalmar (Hjalmar) Linnström
Date:
7 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00522)
Summary:
Gives permission to translate Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 101–2)
Summary:
Wants seed with large cotyledons to test for sensitivity and movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[William Benjamin] [Carpenter]
Date:
7 October 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 148-149
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie ("Grant") Allen
Date:
7 October 1877
Source of text:
- Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
- Clodd, E. (1900). In: Grant Allen: a Memoir. London: G. Richards. [pp. 63-64]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 23
Summary:
Speculates that the function of "bloom" is to prevent evaporation.
Raised CD’s question about the geographical distribution of glaucous plants at recent botanical meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project