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DCP-LETT-10757

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 111: B55–8r
Summary:

Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10754

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B94–5
Summary:

Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10799

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 156–157)
Summary:

JVC’s publisher [Schweizerbart] must decide soon how many copies of two maps in Volcanic islands and South America are needed.

Has sent new edition of Orchids – greatly altered, but he hopes improved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
17 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 20 January 1877, p. 83
Summary:

CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10800

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
17 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 37
Summary:

CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 58–9)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation

and for information about Mussaenda.

Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10801

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 106: B132–3
Summary:

Thanks for new edition of Orchids.

The remarkable papers of Mott on Ernst Haeckel ["On Haeckel’s history of creation", Proc. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 31 (1876–7): 41–89].

The part played by carbon in geological changes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1972

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 January 1877
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B132-133
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 274
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 297-298]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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