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DCP-LETT-10992

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10995

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10994

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 197
Summary:

Has two young friends who wish to call on CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10994F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 2
Summary:

Lists the tasks he has completed; sends on letter from Romanes; news of Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10996

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10997

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 109
Summary:

Cites a misprint in Orchids.

Asks how long Forms of flowers will be, and publication date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10999F

From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1914
Summary:

The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10999

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 39
Summary:

Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10998

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 69: A12–13
Summary:

Objects to the passage about the Irish quoted by CD in Descent [1: 174].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10762F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 June? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 3
Summary:

Forwards letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11000

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
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DCP-LETT-11001F

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

DCP-LETT-11001

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

DCP-LETT-11002

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
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DCP-LETT-11003

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:
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DCP-LETT-11004

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55
Summary:

Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.

GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.

Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11005

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11007

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:
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DCP-LETT-11006

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
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DCP-LETT-11010

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
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