From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 58
Summary:
"Frank has sent the cards here."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
23 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510)
Summary:
CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
27 Apr 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vasile Conta
Date:
29 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Biblioteca Academiei Române (Manuscripts: Vasile Conta: Regulamente: A.2882)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Ossian Sars
Date:
29 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 233: Letters to Georg Ossian Sars)
Summary:
Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
30 Apr 1877
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (March 1994); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016)
Summary:
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.2
- John Murray2
- Ridley, H. N.2
- Semper, C. G.2
- Stoppelaar, G. N. de2
- Zacharias, Otto2
- Colby, John1
- Conta, Vasile1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Harris, Edward1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Howie, Thomas1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kořenský, Josef1
- Lewes, G. H.1
- Marshall, W. C.1
- McLachlan, Robert1
- Morse, E. S.1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Robertson, G. C.1
- Sars, G. O.1
- Schön, Johannes1
- Scott, John1