From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 59
Summary:
Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
3 June 1877
Source of text:
Phillips (dealers) (June 1995)
Summary:
Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 June [1877]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119)
Summary:
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Huntsman
Date:
5 June [1877]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:
Urgently requests a pair of braces. "Please remember that I am 6. ft high & require rather long bracers."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515)
Summary:
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Bradlaugh
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 32
Summary:
CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Roberts
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections (Charles Roberts Autograph Letter collection)
Summary:
Sends six photographs of himself as a contribution to correspondent’s charity.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6582: 377)
Summary:
Pleased that a Grace has been submitted to confer on CD an honorary LL.D.; hopes his health will permit him to attend the ceremony.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
Thanks LHM for his Ancient society [1877].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[10 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 20
Summary:
Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him
and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 June [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516)
Summary:
Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.
Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 39
Summary:
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 443–4
Summary:
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 June [1877]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 166–167)
Summary:
Forms of flowers will soon be published and is not a long book.
Does not suppose he will publish any more books, "though perhaps a few more papers". He "cannot endure being idle, but Heaven knows whether I am capable of any more good work".
Erratum JVC sent was due to a printer’s error after he had seen last proofs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 June [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974)
Summary:
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7)
Summary:
Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]
and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Contributor:
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