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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63)
Summary:

Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.

CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503)
Summary:

Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.

Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 240
Summary:

TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
3 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 January 1877, p. 19
Summary:

Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118)
Summary:

Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].

Is glad of the notice about black pigs.

Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;

thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Auckland Star
Date:
4 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Auckland Star , 1 March 1877, p. 2
Summary:

His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.

His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 Jan 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504)
Summary:

Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 484
Summary:

Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.

1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
5 January [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Karl Müller ("Müller-Mylius")
Date:
5 January 1877
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig: Slg. Nebauer/L/Sa-Z/L662
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Hodgskin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 225
Summary:

Sends nest of a Uruguayan bird.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 5
Summary:

Sends photographs of himself.

Thanks CD for book [Cross and self-fertilisation]

and Francis Darwin for publications.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
7 January 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/120
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 4
Summary:

Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.

Haeckel is ill.

German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93
Summary:

Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 January 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Howard Miller
Date:
10 Jan 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.505)
Summary:

Declines offer involving embryological studies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 93
Summary:

Encloses extract [missing] on a caterpillar.

Mentions William Buckler’s magnificent drawings of caterpillars [The larvae of the British butterflies and moths, Ray Soc. (1886–91)], but doubts Buckler will lend them for any Darwinian purpose. John Hellins has a portion of drawings and is more liberal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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