To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
From Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Author: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10336 |
To Sigmund Fuchs [1877–8?]
Summary
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sigmund Fuchs |
Date: | [1877–8?] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 221v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10337 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1877?]
Summary
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Apr 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A44, A71–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10343 |
To Albert Günther 28 January [1877]
Summary
Has signed certificates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 28 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10372 |
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
From W. E. Darwin [12 or 19 July 1877]
Summary
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 or 19] July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10743 |
From Adolphe de Stillfried [1877?]
Summary
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Author: | Adolphe de Stillfried |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10744 |
To [E. M. Dicey?] [1877]
Summary
Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
Date: | [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10746 |
To Veitch & Sons [before 11 August 1877]
Summary
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Veitch & Sons |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10749 |
From [W. T. Thiselton-Dyer] [after 22 September 1877]
Summary
Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Sept 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10750 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [June 1877 or later]
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1877 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 32–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10751 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
From W. E. Darwin [24 August 1877]
Summary
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10753 |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
To Julius von Haast [c. 11 February 1877]
Summary
The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | [c. 11 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10756 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [before 17 January 1877]
Summary
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B55–8r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10757 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [early 1877?]
Summary
Thanks WTT-D for his comments on and praise of his book [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | [early 1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B58v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10758 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
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Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Romanes, G. J. | (11) |
Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (600) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (29) |
Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
Darwin, Francis | (19) |
Romanes, G. J. | (19) |