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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 131
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to write the preface for RM’s translation of Weismann.

Will arrange to meet CD when he comes to London.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Institute of Astronomy Library, University of Cambridge (Jules Carret 1878: R.c.1473)
Summary:

Forwards pamphlet (Jules Carret 1878) to GHD.

Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 306
Summary:

Encloses a letter [missing] on the progress of the Fuegians.

His eldest son has married.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
3 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 10 (EH 88205983)
Summary:

Thanks for ACR’s Physical geology [5th ed. (1878)]; delighted with its success, proving there is a large body of men in England capable of appreciating sound geological science.

Contributor:
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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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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 20
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of French translation of Forms of flowers. "No one more than you has made us feel the beauties of Creation and made us enter more profoundly into the secrets of nature."

Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 71, The Royal Society (RR/8/91)
Summary:

Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.

Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 307
Summary:

Explains the occurrence of cattle on the Fuegian islands.

Discusses intentions with regard to missionary stations and steamers in the area.

Contributor:
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From:
Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 68
Summary:

CD elected foreign associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences [K. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften].

EdB-R’s paper will be available in English in the New York periodical, Popular Science Monthly, and he hopes CD will read it. [See 11742 and 11842.]

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 75
Summary:

Delighted with [William Thomson’s] report. "There can be no doubt now about the value of your work." CD has "not been so much pleased for a long time".

Contributor:
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From:
James Allen (Allen) Harker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 101
Summary:

Has observed rare instances of Ophrys apifera with "cut labellum". Suggests it was done by large dragonfly mistaking the flower for a fly visiting a flower. Stimulated to study Ophrys by Orchids.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
Date:
12 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 214–215)
Summary:

Sends thanks [for election to Prussian Academy of Sciences].

Appreciates the copy of address [Darwin versus Galiani (1876)].

Contributor:
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From:
Edouard Bergson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 4
Summary:

Describes the change in shape of a worm over a candle-flame.

Contributor:
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From:
George Arthur Gaskell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 12
Summary:

Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield
Date:
[15–18 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
Manchester Guardian , 19 November 1878, p. 8
Summary:

A memorial signed by CD and many others, calling upon the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, to convene Parliament to discuss the ultimatum addressed to the Amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan, by the Viceroy of India, E. R. Bulwer-Lytton.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Arthur Gaskell
Date:
15 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 327
Summary:

CD hopes GAG is right [see 11744]. His second law seems largely acted on in civilised societies. Evil that would follow from checking benevolence to weak and diseased would be greater than by allowing them to survive and procreate. CD doubts that artificial checks would be advantageous to the world at large. If birth could be prevented, and control were not thought immoral, "would there not be a danger of profligacy amongst unmarried women?"

Contributor:
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From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 221
Summary:

Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.

Contributor:
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From:
Albert Brydges Farn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 26
Summary:

Discusses colour variations in the geometer moth, Gnophos obscurata. Concludes that the increasing proportion of the darker form is related to the effect of smoke that is blackening the chalk slopes on which they live.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Invites RM to luncheon.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
19 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Northwestern University Libraries, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections (Harriet Gilliam papers, box 18, folder 13)
Summary:

Glad to join Association of Liberal Thinkers and to pay usual subscription. Refuses any office and does not allow his name to be used to promote the association because neither his health nor his mental habits will allow him to take an active part.

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