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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 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:
Allen Stoneham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 259
Summary:
Has read CD’s note on the scarcity of holly berries ["Holly berries" (1877), Collected papers 2: 189–90] resulting from the scarcity of bees. Believes the shortage of bees resulted from the wet year 1875, which led to a very poor honey harvest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Murton Tracy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 174
Summary:
Observations on and explanations of the scarcity of fruit and berries (especially holly berries) evident that year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Murton Tracy
Date:
[after 11 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 174r
Summary:
GMT’s observations [on scarcity of holly berries] throw doubt on CD’s conclusions [see Collected papers 2: 189–90].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 192
Summary:
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR2.D.1.1)
Summary:
TMR’s address ["Geological time" (Presidential Address, 1876), Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35] not yet published. Will send copy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
12 January 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.272-273, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 348
Summary:
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 8
Summary:
Asks whether CD has any observations to make on J. R. L. Delboeuf’s article ["Les mathématiques et la transformisme"] in Revue Scientifique [2d ser. 29 (1877): 669–79]. He would be pleased to receive a letter or article for publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 165
Summary:
CD asks if he may call next day for talk.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Émile Alglave
Date:
[after 13 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 8v
Summary:
Has not seen Delboeuf’s article [see 10786] and would be obliged for a copy. He is not likely to have any comments as he is engaged in other work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Gordon, C. G.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
14 January 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Alfred Grugeon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 237
Summary:
Believes CD is in error in his notice on the scarcity of holly berries [Collected papers 2: 189–90] in asserting that holly is not a hermaphrodite.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albert Julius Mott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 January 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 358-364
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
14 January 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/121
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66)
Summary:
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Leggett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: B127–8
Summary:
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks DN for references.
The Apocyanaceae that catch Lepidoptera represent the most gratuitous case of cruelty in nature known to CD, since the captured butterfly is of no use to the plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Pim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 73
Summary:
Reply to CD’s note ["Holly berries", Collected papers 2: 189–90] from a beekeeper: attributes the scarcity of bees to the harshness of weather in preceding spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 120
Summary:
Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
