To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877]
Summary
Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
Date: | 22 June [1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11011 |
From Clipson Wray 22 June 1877
Summary
States that the sheep of the Cape will produce twins only when herbage is plentiful before rutting-time.
Makes some observations on bustards and baboons.
Author: | David Clipson (Clipson) Wray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11012 |
To G. C. Robertson 24 June [1877]
Summary
Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Croom Robertson |
Date: | 24 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11013 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
From Francis Darwin to P. P. C. Hoek [c. 24 June 1877]
Summary
CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Date: | [c. 24 June 1877] |
Classmark: | Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014F |
From J. D. Hooker 25 June 1877
Summary
Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.
JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11015 |
From P. P. C. Hoek to C. W. Thomson 25 June 1877
Summary
Requests duplicates of [H. M. S.] Challenger Pycnogonidae.
Author: | Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek |
Addressee: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
Date: | 25 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016 |
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 June [1877] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
From G. G. Bianconi 26 June 1877
Summary
Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.
Author: | Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11017 |
From Alfred Martinelli 26 June 1877
Summary
Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.
Author: | Alfred James Martinelli |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11018 |
To Otto Busch 26 June 1877
Summary
Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]
and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch |
Date: | 26 June 1877 |
Classmark: | Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11019 |
From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877
Summary
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020 |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 27 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.
Author: | Frederic Harrison |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 251: 1916 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020F |
From C. E. Bessey 28 June 1877
Summary
Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.
Author: | Charles Edwin Bessey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11021 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 June 1877
Summary
Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 488 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11022 |
To Ernst Krause 30 June 1877
Summary
CD interested in EK’s argument against belief that sense of colour has been recently acquired by man. Describes his observations of the difficulty his own children had in distinguishing, or naming, colours.
Adds that it appeared to him the gustatory sense of his children, when young, differed from that of grown-up persons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 30 June 1877 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11023 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 June [1877]
Summary
Has not heard from Appleton about an American edition [of Forms of flowers]. Asks how many copies Murray is printing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 30 June [1877] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 302–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11024 |
From William Roberts 30 June 1877
Summary
He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.
Author: | William Roberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11025 |
From C. W. Thomson 30 June 1877
Summary
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
Author: | Charles Wyville Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11026 |
From G. J. Romanes [before 6 June 1877]
Summary
Notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 139–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13839 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Harrison, Frederic | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Atkinson, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Romanes, G. J. | (7) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |