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From Francis Darwin   [before 21 May 1877]

Summary

Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 21 May 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10520F

From C. W. Thomson   1 May 1877

Summary

Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.

Author:  Charles Wyville Thomson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 178: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10947

To [Francis Lloyd]   1 May [1877]

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Summary

CD does not feel a subscription could be got up to aid correspondent. Sends a cheque for £10.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Lloyd
Date:  1 May [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10948

To W. H. Flower   2 May [1877]

Summary

‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Flower
Date:  2 May [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10949

From W. H. Flower   3 May 1877

Summary

Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.

Author:  William Henry Flower
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 May 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.511)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10950

To C. W. Thomson   3 May 1877

Summary

Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Wyville Thomson
Date:  3 May 1877
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 61)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10950F

To Albert Günther   4 May [1877]

Summary

Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  4 May [1877]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10951

To Albert Günther   7 May 1877

Summary

Sends MS about pigeons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  7 May 1877
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/15/112)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10952

To George King   7 May 1877

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Thanks GK for the seeds of the Melastomaceae

and skins of the pigeons,

and forwards a note to Dr Scully.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George King
Date:  7 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 185: 113i
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10952F

From A. G. Butler   8 May 1877

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Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 388
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10953

To Fritz Müller   9 May 1877

Summary

Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  9 May 1877
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10954

From C.-F. Reinwald   9 May 1877

Summary

French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

Author:  Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 176: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10955

From George Rolleston   9 May 1877

Summary

Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.

Author:  George Rolleston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 176: 214
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10956

To A. G. Butler   9 May 1877

Summary

"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:  9 May 1877
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10957

From G. H. Darwin   [before 28 May 1877]

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Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 28 May 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10958

From D. B. Miller   12 May 1877

Summary

Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.

Author:  David Benton Miller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 171: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10959

To Fritz Müller   14 May 1877

Summary

Requests observations on sensitive Mimosa and movements of plants in rain.

Worm-castings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  14 May 1877
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 42)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10960

To Karl von Scherzer   14 May [1877]

Summary

Received Moritz Wagner’s essays [Das Ausland (May 1875)] and sent him a long letter [10643] disagreeing with his views because they do not explain adaptation.

Thanks for Büchner’s essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie, 4th ed. (1876)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl von Scherzer
Date:  14 May [1877]
Classmark:  Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00526)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10961

From W. H. Flower to Otto Zacharias   17 May 1877

Summary

Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.

Author:  William Henry Flower
Addressee:  Otto Zacharias
Date:  17 May 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10962

From W. B. Bowles   17 May 1877

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Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.

Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.

Author:  William Burrows Bowles
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 May 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 263
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10963
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