From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 82
Summary:
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.173, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Herman (Herman) Semmig
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 134
Summary:
Sends a published diary [Das Kind, 2d ed. (1876)] in which he recorded the early growth of his first child. Hopes it may find an English translator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 186
Summary:
Observations on movements of leaves of Erythrina crista-galli in green-house and out of doors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 126
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Insects that infest and are parasitic upon the fig fruit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Schwerzfeger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 201: 35
Summary:
Asks for a loan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B102
Summary:
Sends a dividend.
Recommends a novel but is sure Emma will not like it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 89–91)
Summary:
Discusses plants to be sent to Kew.
Thanks for letter about Trifolium
and for R. I. Lynch’s observations on sleep of Erythrina.
Mentions letter from F. J. Cohn, dealing with discovery by Francis Darwin, that CD has had printed in Nature ["The contractile filaments of the teasel", Nature 16 (1877): 339; Collected papers 2: 205–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Aug 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project