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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[before August 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 884
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug – 15 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 159: A100
Summary:

Statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
1 Aug 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
1 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.

Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 135
Summary:

Sends paper on Greek plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Henry Sayce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 47
Summary:

Thanks CD for permission to quote his comments; mentions some of his conclusions with regard to the early speech of children.

Thanks for [newspaper] account of American Philological Association meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
2 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.30-31, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs his wife, Lady Hyacinth Hooker, of his latest travels around the United States of America. He & his party camped at La Veta Pass in the Rocky Mountains to explore the forest for plants. The travelling party consists of: Dr Asa Gray, Lady Jane Loring Gray, General Richard Strachey, Lady Jane Maria Strachey, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden & Dr Robert Henry Lambourne. From La Veta they travelled by rail & wagon to Fort Garland, a remote military garrison, & then ascended Sierra Blanca; the highest mountain in the Rockies at 14,500 feet. He describes the ascent: hard work cutting their way through Aspen & Pine forest & sleeping out in the cold. They then travelled by train past Pueblo to Colorado Springs & by coach to Manitou [Springs] at the foot of the mountains close to Pikes Peak. It is a popular resort for invalids & here JDH met Dr [Samuel Edwin?] Solly an acquaintance from London. Next they will go to George Town [Georgetown] & ascend Gray's Peak, then to Cheyenne on the California rail line. JDH longs for news from home, any letters sent have gone astray. He wishes Hyacinth were with him but the travelling is expensive and uncomfortable for ladies. The conditions are tiring but JDH is learning 'an enormous deal'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
3 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Will be interested in reading AdeC’s paper on Smilax. The transition from hermaphroditic to unisexual condition is a perplexing problem.

CD agrees that there is much justice in AdeC’s criticism of his use of the terms "object", "end", and "purpose" but thinks "those who believe that organs have been gradually modified by natural selection for a special purpose, may I think use the above terms correctly though no conscious being has intervened".

CD and Francis are hard at work on the function of "bloom" but CD doubts that the experiments will tell them much.

Does AdeC have a decided opinion on whether plants with glaucous leaves are more frequent in hot or dry than in cold or wet countries?

Francis has been getting "striking" results from feeding meat to Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
3 August 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 203
Summary:

Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.

Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
5 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.25-26, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
7 August 1877
Source of text:
N78/2312, unit 1018, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH received William Thiselton-Dyer's [WTD's] letter of 13 July [1877] at Denver, Colorado. He is glad WTD is not overwhelmed by the duties of RBG Kew Director in JDH's absence. Mrs Hodgson wrote to JDH about visiting WTD & his wife Harriet Thiselton-Dyer. JDH is working learning a lot about western conifers, especially the Pines of Colorado, which are very diverse & incl. Pinus edulis, P. ponderosa P. aristata, P. flexilis, Abies douglasii, A. menziesii, A. engelmannii, Picea concolor, Juniperus virginiana, J. occidentalis & J. communis. Of these western American species only the Junipers are found East of the Rocky Mountains. JDH has collected 500 species. Next the party travels East to the Wahasatch [Wasatch] Mountains beyond Salt Lake to get a glimpse of the West Colorado vegetation where Pinus edulis gives way to P. monophylla. They will go to Nevada & the Taxodium grove via Carson & Silver City then via Calavera & Mariposa to San Francisco, the Redwood [Sequoioideae] district & Monterey. JDH's travelling companion Asa Gray should write a general description of the botanical geography of North America, they may write something jointly for Hayden's Survey. The Stracheys are good company. Discusses improvements being made at RBG Kew: replacement of the boilers [in the Palm House] with 'Rivers' Boilers', the controversy over the height of the [RBG Kew boundary] wall, bad work done by a contractor & poor foundations of the Palm House. JDH is anxious to give up his duties at the Royal Society & focus on RBG Kew. JDH has seen the RBG Kew report published in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Mentions news regarding his sons Charles Paget Hooker & Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker. JDH is suffering with diarrhoea & travelling through wilderness has left him bruised. He does not have the energy he once had, though he did climb Gray's Peak to 14,300 feet. Recounts the feeling of being at the top of the peak during an electrical storm with Mr Darrell, son of Judge Darrell of Bermuda.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 80–1)
Summary:

Requests plants that show movement, and any with "bloom" living near the sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
8 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Summary:

Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ludwig Noiré
Date:
8 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Stadtbibliothek Mainz (4 MS 170)
Summary:

CD sends his thanks for LN’s book [Der Ursprung der Sprache] and for the obliging words on the title page.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
8 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.22-24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 356
Summary:

Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 August 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 97
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 145: 9
Summary:

Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project