To ? 26 February 1877
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | eBay (September 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871A |
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
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 Karl Beger [12 February 1877]
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10824 |
From Thomas Palmer February 1877
Summary
Reports on expression in his Pomeranian dog.
Author: | Thomas Palmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10825 |
From Emil Rade [before 16] February 1877
Summary
Sends album of photographs of German scientists as birthday honour.
Author: | Emil Rade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 16] Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 29 (EH 88206080) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10826 |
To J. W. Judd [after 1 February 1877]
Summary
Tells of his pleasure and surprise at reading JWJ’s article ["Darwin’s ""Geological observations"" ", Nature 15 (1877): 289–90].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wesley Judd |
Date: | [after 1 Feb 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10828 |
To H. W. Bates 6 February [1877]
Summary
Requests return of August Weismann’s letter which refers to eggs.
Curious about the drawing [of the caterpillar? See 10780].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 6 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10829 |
From Asa Gray 6 February 1877
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10830 |
From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Author: | David Taylor Fish |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
To H. N. Moseley 7 February 1877
Summary
Would like to see the photographs.
Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834F |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday wishes. Album of photographs from German admirers has been sent.
Plans trip to Mediterranean.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10835 |
To T. M. Reade 9 February 1877
Summary
Comments on TMR’s essay ["Geological time"].
It is monstrous that P. G. Tait should say that earth is less than ten million years old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
Date: | 9 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10836 |
From Asa Gray 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends specimens of two forms of Rhamnus lanceolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10837 |
From Hugo Schneider 10 February 1877
Summary
Sends birthday greetings. Asks for autographed photograph.
Author: | Hugo Schneider |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10838 |
To Francis Galton 11 February [1877]
Summary
Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 11 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10839 |
To A. A. van Bemmelen 12 February 1877
Summary
Expresses his gratitude for the gift [a birthday album from a number of Dutch scientists]; he cannot imagine a more honourable testimonial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adriaan Anthoni van Bemmelen |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841 |
From Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 12 February 1877
Summary
CD made a corresponding member of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte.
Author: | Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10841A |
To Alpheus Hyatt 13 February 1877
Summary
Regrets that F. Hilgendorf proved so greatly in error ["Planorbis Multiformis", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504; "Noch einmal Planorbis Multiformis", Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges. 29 (1877): 50–62].
Discusses polymorphic species.
Surprised that shell form developed from various different progenitors.
Reminds CD of C. Nägeli’s conclusions on Hieracium.
But still retains belief expressed in first edition of Origin that variation in protean species is neither advantageous nor disadvantageous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10842 |
To Karl von Scherzer 13 February 1877
Summary
Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 13 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10843 |
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