To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD confesses his error with respect to the cause of the scarcity of holly berries. It appears that several causes in combination have led to it. CD still believes rarity of bees played a part, though a subordinate one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 20 January 1877, p. 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10797 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
From W. E. Darwin 24 October 1877
Summary
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11204F |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [1877?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [1877?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10754 |
To Nature 15 August [1877]
Summary
CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 15 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | Nature, 23 August 1877, p. 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11108 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From J. G. Joyce 15 November 1877
Summary
Memorandum on Silchester. Report by IGJ of investigations carried out at Silchester with Frank and Horace [Darwin] on earthworm activity at the site of a Roman villa. Sections of vertical cuttings at Silchester, traced from the journal of the excavations of the Roman house, and notes on the same.
Author: | James Gerald Joyce |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 63–6; DAR 65: 104, 106, 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11236 |
To F. J. Cohn 8 August 1877
Summary
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 8 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11095 |
From W. H. Leggett 15 January 1877
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Author: | William Henry Leggett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10790 |
From John Murray 29 November [1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query about payment made to him [for Descent and Forms of flowers] and explains the basis on which it was made. Because of CD’s wish to be paid before editions are sold off, profits must be estimated. If he were willing to accept annual statements of sales, payments based on them, and final accounting when all were sold, there would be no uncertainty. This is JM’s usual practice.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 497, DAR 210.11: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11259 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 3 August 1877
Summary
Will be interested in reading AdeC’s paper on Smilax. The transition from hermaphroditic to unisexual condition is a perplexing problem.
CD agrees that there is much justice in AdeC’s criticism of his use of the terms "object", "end", and "purpose" but thinks "those who believe that organs have been gradually modified by natural selection for a special purpose, may I think use the above terms correctly though no conscious being has intervened".
CD and Francis are hard at work on the function of "bloom" but CD doubts that the experiments will tell them much.
Does AdeC have a decided opinion on whether plants with glaucous leaves are more frequent in hot or dry than in cold or wet countries?
Francis has been getting "striking" results from feeding meat to Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 3 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11092 |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
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- … 11–13. CD used heliotypes in Expression , when the process was in the early stages of development (see Correspondence vol. 20 and Prodger 2009 ). The Steinheim basin, about two miles in diameter, has a hill at the centre, Klosterberg (for more on the physical conditions of the basin, see Rasser 2013 , pp. 13–14). …
From T. H. Farrer 23 September 1877
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 August Weismann 12 January 1877
Summary
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 348 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10784 |
From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14: 69–75. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Delpino, Federico. 1868–75. Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogamia nel regno vegetale. 2 parts. Milan: Giuseppe Bernardoni. [Originally published in Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali Milano 11 ( …
To Asa Gray 4 June [1877]
Summary
C. E. Bessey’s case [see 10969] came too late, as the sheets had been printed, but CD thinks it should be carefully investigated as a possible case of incipient heterostyly.
Is trying to make out the function of "bloom", the waxy secretion on leaves and fruits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 June [1877] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10982 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 April 1877 and n. 1); he remarked that the proof-sheets had all been corrected in his letter to J. V. Carus, 17 June [1877] . Bessey’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Forms of flowers (see Appendix IV). He later published the article ‘The supposed dimorphism of Lithospermum longiflorum ’ ( Bessey 1880 ). CD dedicated Forms of flowers to Gray, ‘as a small tribute of respect and affection’. For CD’s interest in bloom, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 14 …
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