From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512)
Summary:
Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 279
Summary:
Stripes on animals curious subject for investigation. Not likely to take it up again.
Recommends cutting plant stems under water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 23, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
To:
Martha Charters Somerville
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
MSD 3 / 127, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Burrows Bowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 264
Summary:
Is less certain of views in letter of 17 May [10963]. Asserts interest in explaining the presence of "speaking monkeys", which occur in higher as well as lower classes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sylvester Morse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 245
Summary:
Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.
Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.
Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 230: 52
Summary:
CD elected unanimously as a foreign member of the Dutch Society of Sciences. [See 10970.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
19 May [1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 July 2004)
Summary:
Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
19 May 1877
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 6)
Summary:
Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 22
Summary:
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[before 22 May 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 166
Summary:
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edouard Henri von Baumhauer
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Summary:
Acknowledges election to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196
Summary:
Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:
CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Summary:
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Drinkwater
Date:
24 May 1877
Source of text:
Shrewsbury Chronicle , 12 January 1894, p. 8
Summary:
Sends a contribution [£10] to CHD’s fundraising.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69)
Summary:
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27–8 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 58
Summary:
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 59
Summary:
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
