To John Murray 30 November 1877
Summary
Thanks for accounts which make everything intelligible to him. Since he was glad to have Orchids published at one-half of profits for himself, he believes it would be very shabby to accept JM’s new offer of two-thirds profits. Thinks it would be fairer to both to change to JM’s usual practice with authors [i.e., annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all copies have been sold].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11262 |
To John Murray 28 November 1877
Summary
On publishing details for various CD books.
Has no corrections for new issue of Descent [2d ed.].
Questions amount of cheque for profits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 293–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11258 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
To E. S. Morse 23 April 1877
Summary
Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].
J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.
CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sylvester Morse |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1877 |
| Classmark: | Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10938 |
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- … B. [What American zoologists have done for evolution. ] Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 25 (1876): 137–76. Origin 6th ed. : The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. …
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