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DCP-LETT-11290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.529)
Summary:

Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11292

From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 161
Summary:

Informs CD of his work on the "unity of language in its development".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-12-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Roger Goldsworthy
Date:
27 December 1877
Source of text:
Acc. 36, vol. 852, fol. 238-9, Colonial Secretary's Office, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-12-28

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 December 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
28 Dec 1877
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 6)
Summary:

Thanks AG for his kindness in sending his valuable work [Les enchaînements du monde animal vol. 1 (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4340

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
28 December 1877
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (53)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
Date:
[29 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 February 1959)
Summary:

"If you finally succeed in proving that all languages have been developed from a common root, you will indeed have effected a most valuable piece of work."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11296

From:
Henry Edward John Stanley, 3d Baron Stanley and 2d Baron Eddisbury
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
29 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 245
Summary:

Reports on potatoes grown from Torbitt’s seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5270

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernest Théodore Hamy
Date:
29 December 1877
Source of text:
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Bibliothèque Centrale: Ms 2254, fol. 384
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11298

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 205
Summary:

Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.

J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.

Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
31 Dec [1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 42
Summary:

Reports, as treasurer, on the financial position of the Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-12-31a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
31 December 1877
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11299

From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 219
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer of £50 for portrait of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11297

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 40
Summary:

Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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