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From:
Edward Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 105
Summary:

Wishes to bring CD his trained cockatoo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josef Kořenský
Date:
2 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Museum of Czech Literature/Památník národního písemnictví (fond Varia Literární archiv)
Summary:

"Charles Darwin Down, Kent April 2d. 1877; With Mr Darwin’s compliments. – "

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 111: A88
Summary:

Is pleased that CD agrees with HM’s suggestions and criticisms of CD’s work. Will undertake experiments with Viola tricolor seeds to see if they produce both large- and small-flowered plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 110: B62
Summary:

Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 61)
Summary:

Arrangements about a purchase of land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Colby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 208
Summary:

Notes on competition among tree species in South Wales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johannes Schön
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 62
Summary:

In the name of a student science club, asks whether CD’s theory of evolution applies to mental as well as physical characteristics of men and animals. Asks whether animals have free-will like humans. Do animals have a sense that humans lack?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
11 Apr 1877
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 304–5)
Summary:

Sends MS [of Forms of flowers]. Since sale is likely to be small, Murray may not want to publish it on usual terms. CD thinks it may be his last book and asks Murray to publish it on most favourable terms he can afford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 487
Summary:

JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 47: 207–9
Summary:

Comments on various species of Lagerstroemia.

In the series of opium poppy intercrosses made at CD’s suggestion, JS has learned that the reason they failed to intercross was the absence of insects at the period of their flowering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Hooper
Date:
13 April 1877
Source of text:
  • Lambeth Archives: IV/27/50
  • Lambeth Archives: IV/27/50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
14 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.104-105, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 51
Summary:

CD made a Foreign Member of the Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B10–11
Summary:

Sends specimens of Saxifraga tridactylites with insects caught by it. Asks if colour of leaves attracts insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
16 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43)
Summary:

Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 April 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 20, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:
17 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Summary:

Thanks for membership of Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
18 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 185: 45
Summary:

Thanks GHL for a copy of his Physical basis of mind [1877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 57
Summary:

Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
20 April 1877
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project