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:
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
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
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:
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
[c. 24 June 1877]
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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:
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:
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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Charles Robert Darwin]
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 24, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project