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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Thomas Howie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 276
Summary:
Offers key to CD’s theory: fern roots are like little grubs.
Claims to have crossed the Australian Alps where Dr Müller [Ferdinand von Mueller?] failed.
Contributor:
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From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 6
Summary:
Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?
Contributor:
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From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 1
Summary:
Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.
He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A44, A71–6
Summary:
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 168: 83
Summary:
Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 137
Summary:
Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].
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