To ? 4 July [1877?]
Summary
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 July [1877?] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23 July 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
To Alfred Espinas [before 1 July 1877]
Summary
As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
Date: | [before 1 July 1877] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11027 |
To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 5 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036 |
To Constantin James 5 July 1877
Summary
Thanks him for his book [Du Darwinisme ou l’homme singe (1877)] and letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Constantin James |
Date: | 5 July 1877 |
Classmark: | James 1892, p. [V] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036F |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 6 July 1877
Summary
Thanks AD-P for plates [from Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, Atlas der Botanik (1878–83)]. Will be useful to all who teach botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 6 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11039 |
To William Preyer 8 July 1877
Summary
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 8 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 268–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11042 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 July [1877]
Summary
Asks for advice on how to care for previously sent species.
Occurrence of "bloom".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 67–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11043 |
To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877]
Summary
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11044 |
To Ernst Krause 11 July [1877]
Summary
EK may publish a translation [of "Sketch of an infant"] if he wishes, but CD hardly thinks it deserves the honour.
Glad to hear that Kosmos succeeds fairly well; has found several articles interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 11 July [1877] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36174) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11047 |
To George Bentham 12 July 1877
Summary
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11049 |
To G. C. Robertson 13 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for offprints [of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200]. Several Germans have asked permission to translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
Date: | 13 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11052 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1877]
Summary
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 14 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11053 |
To Rudolph Ludwig [16 July 1877]
Summary
Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph August Birminhold Sebastian (Rudolph) Ludwig |
Date: | [16 July 1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.517) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11055 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 16 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of Down Friendly Society, which wishes to have one of its rules modified to permit the distribution of surplus funds. [Apparently an earlier draft of 11058.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 16 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11057 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 17 July [1877]
Summary
Wishes to have a resolution lately passed by the Down Friendly Society confirmed at the earliest convenience. [See also 11057.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 17 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11058 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks him for various plants sent for experiments.
Frank [Darwin] has been feeding Drosera meat to study differences between fed and unfed plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 July [1877] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 72–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11059 |
To C. G. Semper 18 July 1877
Summary
Thanks for CGS’s work [“Über Schneckenaugen” (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
Date: | 18 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11061 |
To J. M. F. Ludlow 20 July [1877]
Summary
Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow |
Date: | 20 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11064 |
To the National Debt Office [after 29 July 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | National Debt Office |
Date: | [after 29 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11065 |
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Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
Ludlow, J. M. F. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
Ludlow, J. M. F. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
Dodel-Port, Arnold | (1) |
Druitt, Thomas | (1) |
Espinas, Alfred | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Herbert, H. H. M. | (1) |
James, Constantin | (1) |
Krause, Ernst | (1) |
Ludwig, Rudolph | (1) |
Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
Morgan, L. H. | (1) |
National Debt Office | (1) |
Preyer, William | (1) |
Robertson, G. C. | (1) |
Sayce, A. H. | (1) |
Semper, C. G. | (1) |
Torbitt, James | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |