To J. V. Carus 16 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks JVC for correcting a bad blunder in Forms of flowers.
His health fairly good; has been able to work "pretty hard".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 168–169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11143 |
To L. A. Errera 18 September 1877
Summary
Agrees to look over MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.521) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11144 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 19 September 1877
Summary
Describes data relating to variability of Primula elatior.
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11145 |
From M. C. Stanley 19 September 1877
Summary
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma and/or Charles Darwin c. 20–5 September 1877
Summary
Description of their English dinner companions at a foreign hotel.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | c. 20-25 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11146F |
From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.
Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]
and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11148 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Euphorbia.
Asks for plants for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 97–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11149 |
From T. H. Farrer 23 September 1877
Summary
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11150 |
To T. H. Farrer 24 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks THF for the diary of worm activity at Abinger site.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11151 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
From Asa Gray 27 September 1877
Summary
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11155 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 27 September [1877]
Summary
Thanks for Australian leaves for "bloom" experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156 |
To C. W. von Nägeli 27 September 1877
Summary
Thanks for Die niederen Pilze (Nägeli 1877).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11156F |
From W. W. Bailey 28 September 1877
Summary
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
| Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11157 |
To Sara Sedgwick 29 September [1877]
Summary
Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11158 |
From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11159 |
From L. A. Errera 30 September 1877
Summary
Sending MS.
Used Anton Kerner’s nomenclature for designating crosses.
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11160 |
From Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa 30 September 1877
Summary
CD named corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Lisbon.
| Author: | Sociedade de geographia de Lisboa |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11160A |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Errera, L. A. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Lynch, R. I. | (2) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (5) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (5) |
| Errera, L. A. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
