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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
10 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.519)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 85–6)
Summary:
Thanks for plants.
Thanks R. I. Lynch for information about "bloom" on leaves.
WTT-D should not write to Mr Smith about plants near seashore.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
15 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Nature , 23 August 1877, p. 339
Summary:
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Leggett
Date:
19 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Redpath Museum, McGill University
Summary:
Thanks for letter about Pontederia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[20–4 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 87–8) (Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees)
Summary:
Discusses plants sent for experiments and "bloom" on leaves of Trifolium.
Sends enclosure for R. I. Lynch.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[before 24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 83–4)
Summary:
Would like specimen of Cassia mimosoides.
Offers books to R. I. Lynch in return for services rendered.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giovanni Canestrini
Date:
26 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
The estate of Sandro Onestinghel (private collection), subsequently offered for sale by Marsha Malinowski (dealer), New York (https://marshamalinowski.com/press/, accessed 18 December 2020)
Summary:
Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
27 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/26)
Summary:
CD is delighted with report from THF about activity of worms in Roman-British ruins at Abinger.
Contributor:
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