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From:
Antoine-Marcellin (Marcellin) de Bonnal
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 6
Summary:

Asks CD why some living forms have evolved and others have not.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 20
Summary:

Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
[1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 41
Summary:

Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sigmund Fuchs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221
Summary:

Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sigmund Fuchs
Date:
[1877–8?]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 221v
Summary:

[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 357, 359
Summary:

Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe de Stillfried
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 257
Summary:

Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B96
Summary:

Would like Price’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 148
Summary:

Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?

Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Post Office Savings Bank
Date:
1 Jan [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 77
Summary:

Asks to have some funds of the Down Friendly Society transferred.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
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:
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
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
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:
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:
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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