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DCP-LETT-10837

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 109: A84
Summary:

Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10838

From:
Hugo Schneider
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 60
Summary:

Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10824

From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 3
Summary:

Intends to name his son after CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 31
Summary:

Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10841A

From:
Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 47
Summary:

CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10844

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 37
Summary:

Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].

Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10846

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 104
Summary:

Reports on French translations of Cross and self-fertilisation, Climbing plants, and Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10826

From:
Emil Rade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 16] Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080)
Summary:

Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Rade
Date:
16 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 202: 78
Summary:

Thanks for the honour conferred upon him [see 10826]; it is quite beyond his deserts.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10850

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
17 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 349
Summary:

Negotiations for loan of drawings [of Lepidoptera] have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Down Friendly Society
Date:
19 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 138: 5
Summary:

CD, who has acted as treasurer of the Down Friendly Club for the last 27 years, urges the members not to dissolve the Club, but to continue it and retain about £1000 of the funds on hand to ensure its safety and ability to give assistance to members when they are ill or invalided, or to provide for their burial when dead.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10854

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
19 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 24 February 1877, p. 246
Summary:

Replies to some of George Henslow’s criticisms [of Cross and self-fertilisation] made in his article ["Fertilisation of plants", Gard. Chron. n.s. 7 (1877): 203–4].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10857

From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 38
Summary:

Thanks CD for Orchids. Has written a notice for Chelmsford Chronicle.

Finds some botanical observations on inflorescences.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10855

From:
Franz Friedrich Hugo Wilhelm Michael (Franz) von Wotoch-Rekowsky (Franz von Rekowsky)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 119a
Summary:

Requests CD’s autograph. [Translation of letter made by O. Dill, see 10871.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10858

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 105
Summary:

Édouard Heckel of Grenoble is translating Cross and self-fertilisation.

Expression has sold out; wants a new edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10859

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 105: A97–8
Summary:

Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10860

From:
John Gibbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 39
Summary:

Thanks CD for his advice. No doubt one may be misled by a few experiments in matters on which many forces come into play. Describes his plans to observe the flowering of 23 plants of Lychnis gilhago raised from a single capsule.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10861

From:
Hunter Nicholson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 172: 54
Summary:

Gives an example of atavism in American cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10862

From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 184: 5
Summary:

Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?

Photograph album will be late coming.

Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10864

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 122
Summary:

Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.

His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.

JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.

Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.

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