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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 25 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Saville-Kent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 169: 6
Summary:
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 455–6
Summary:
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:
Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jesse Portman Chesney
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 139
Summary:
Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 45
Summary:
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 60–1
Summary:
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 236
Summary:
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 60
Summary:
Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project