From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
From John Gibbs 22 February 1877
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.
Author: | John Gibbs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10860 |
From Hunter Nicholson 23 February 1877
Author: | Hunter Nicholson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10861 |
From Otto Zacharias 23 February 1877
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.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10862 |
From John Scott 24 February 1877
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.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10864 |
From Lawson Tait 25 February 1877
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10868 |
From Alfred Grugeon 25 February [1877]
Summary
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Alfred Grugeon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10869 |
From J. V. Carus 26 February 1877
Summary
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10870 |
From O. Dill 26 February 1877
Summary
Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.
Author: | O. Dill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871 |
From John Colby 27 February 1877
Author: | John Colby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10872 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 March 1877]
Summary
JDH reports on Frank’s reading of his Dipsacus paper at the Royal Society. Huxley slept through much of it, but JDH is well pleased with it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Mar 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 93–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10873 |
From C. F. Claus 5 March 1877
Summary
Has read in the newspapers about the album of photographs of German scientists sent in tribute to CD. His name and photograph are missing only because he was not asked to participate. CC assures CD he is one of his ardent supporters.
Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10879 |
From Asa Gray 6 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].
Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.
Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10880 |
From J. G. F. Riedel 10 March 1877
Summary
Asks CD to publish in Nature JGFR’s observation that natives of Hainan have movable tail bones up to 4 cm long.
Author: | Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10887 |
From Ernst Krause 11 March 1877
Summary
As editor of the new journal, Kosmos, thanks CD for the permission he has granted Ernst Haeckel to publish with CD’s approval.
Cites his long support for evolution as exemplified by his book [Die botanische Systematik in ihrem Verhältniss zur Morphologie (1866)].
CD has many German supporters.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10888 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1877
Summary
Discusses the cleistogamous flowers of Oxalis. Thinks they may not be truly cleistogamous but merely arrested or imperfectly developed normal flowers.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10890 |
From Karl von Estorff 15 March 1877
Author: | Georg Otto Karl (Karl) von Estorff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10892 |
From R. D. Fitzgerald 15 March 1877
Summary
Fertilisation of orchids. Believes some plants so constituted as to dispense with cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10893 |
From C. C. Babington 16 March 1877
Summary
Thinks flowers of Hottonia project from the stem nearly horizontally, perhaps slightly upwards.
Sorry that he cannot help with Pulmonaria angustifolia.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10894 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1877
Summary
Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10898 |
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