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DCP-LETT-10920

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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DCP-LETT-10922

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:
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DCP-LETT-10921

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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DCP-LETT-10923

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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DCP-LETT-10923F

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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DCP-LETT-10924

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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DCP-LETT-10925

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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DCP-LETT-10926

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:
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DCP-LETT-10927

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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DCP-LETT-10928

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.

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DCP-LETT-10928A

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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DCP-LETT-10930

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.

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DCP-LETT-10931

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:
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DCP-LETT-10931F

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:
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DCP-LETT-10932

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:
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DCP-LETT-10933

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!"

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DCP-LETT-10934

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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DCP-LETT-10939F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
20 [Apr 1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 19, 1976)
Summary:

Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10935

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 439
Summary:

CD regrets not being able to see JDH.

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DCP-LETT-10936

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?

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