From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 86–7
Summary:
JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1915
Summary:
Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 88–9
Summary:
JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B12–13
Summary:
Asks if phosphoric acid could have killed Drosera he received in a matchbox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[18 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 149
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 90–1
Summary:
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 153
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 36
Summary:
Concerning the publication of a French edition of Coral Reefs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Clipson (Clipson) Wray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 181: 162
Summary:
States that the sheep of the Cape will produce twins only when herbage is plentiful before rutting-time.
Makes some observations on bustards and baboons.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
To:
Charles Wyville Thomson
Date:
25 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 228
Summary:
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 92
Summary:
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 183
Summary:
Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred James Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 58
Summary:
Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 241
Summary:
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[27 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 150
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1916
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Edwin Bessey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 178
Summary:
Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.
Contributor:
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