From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden
Date:
10 March 1877
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.139-141, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 105
Summary:
As editor of the new journal, Kosmos, thanks CD for the permission he has granted Ernst Haeckel to publish with CD’s approval.
Cites his long support for evolution as exemplified by his book [Die botanische Systematik in ihrem Verhältniss zur Morphologie (1866)].
CD has many German supporters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Andrews
Date:
[before 12 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
Haslemere Educational Museum (HAEEM.LD.5.729)
Summary:
Asks when his waggonette will be finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 59
Summary:
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 35
Summary:
Discusses the cleistogamous flowers of Oxalis. Thinks they may not be truly cleistogamous but merely arrested or imperfectly developed normal flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
13 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (L16163.017b)
Summary:
CD doubts that he will be able to do much more that is new, but cannot bear idleness. Has great amount of material on variation under nature, but so much has been published since the appearance of the Origin that he doubts he has the power of mind to render the mass into a digested whole.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Frederick Brendel
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 March 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 372-373
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Christie, W. H. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
13 March 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1902
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 March 1877
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 193
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
13 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/7)
Summary:
Discusses possible cleistogamic flowers in Oxalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 19, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Georg Otto Karl (Karl) von Estorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 35
Summary:
Sends belated birthday greetings
and an archaeological pamphlet.
Asks for CD’s autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert David Fitzgerald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 131
Summary:
Fertilisation of orchids. Believes some plants so constituted as to dispense with cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 111: B49
Summary:
Thinks flowers of Hottonia project from the stem nearly horizontally, perhaps slightly upwards.
Sorry that he cannot help with Pulmonaria angustifolia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Christie, W. H. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
16 March 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1903
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 485
Summary:
Sends cheques in payment of CD’s share of profits on Cross and self-fertilisation, now nearly exhausted,
and the latest printing of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
16 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596)
Summary:
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 486
Summary:
Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (tipped into Orchids 2d ed., EC85 D2593 862oba)
Summary:
Sends an informal title-page [for Orchids, 2d ed.].
Appreciates the condolences for Frank [on death of his wife, Amy].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pieter Harting
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938)
Summary:
Thanks for account of his work. Cannot read Dutch, but son has translated it.
Thanks for album sent by PH’s countrymen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project