To R. F. Cooke 24 November 1877
Summary
Asks exact number of copies of recent printing of Origin.
Approves stereotyping Orchids,
but fears he cannot approve of stereotyping Cross and self-fertilisation and Forms of flowers. It is too soon for the latter, and he is too busy to correct the former.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 300–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11252 |
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 C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
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 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for specimens [of insects].
Wonders whether difference between male and female plays part in fertilisation of fig.
Flowers of Oxalis sensitiva, sent long ago, are trimorphic and cleistogamic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.508) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10913 |
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- … 23–30, and Newman 1993 , pp. 377–81). John Obadiah Westwood published on specimens of fig wasps sent to him by Thwaites in Westwood 1882 , pp. 39–44, and Westwood 1883 , pp. 375–8. Hermann Crüger published on figs’ requiring insects for fertilisation in Crüger 1851 . Shortly before his death in 1864, Crüger was performing experiments suggested by CD to verify this (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
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