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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-04-21

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 April 1877
Source of text:
No. 2029, pp. 21, 1314, unit 44, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10937

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
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DCP-LETT-10939

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

DCP-LETT-10938

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

DCP-LETT-10343

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10940

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

DCP-LETT-10940F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Gerardus Nicolaas de Stoppelaar
Date:
25 Apr 1877
Source of text:
Zeeuws Archief (Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen)
Summary:

Sends thanks for diploma on CD’s behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10942

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10941

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10943

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC804

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alexander William Williamson
Date:
27 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.106, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1089

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Colonel Henry Wemyss Feilden
Date:
27 April 1877
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.142, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10945G

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
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FL-0235

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[29 April 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10945

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
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FVM-77-04-30

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 April 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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