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DCP-LETT-11549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
9 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks questions about earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[5 or 6] Feb 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.72)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
12 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:

Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11599F

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Griffin Stokes
Date:
16 July [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Summary:

Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11614

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:

Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:

Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.

Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11652

From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.545)
Summary:

Regrets not seeing CD.

Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.547)
Summary:

Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].

Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11717

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Dec] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.551)
Summary:

Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
5 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for account of Fuegians

and news about old "Beaglers".

Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].

Contributor:
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