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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-11701

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 112
Summary:

Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11701F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 22, January 2018, item 20)
Summary:

Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11702

From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 231
Summary:

Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.

Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11703

From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 194: 41
Summary:

Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 170–171)
Summary:

Neither he nor [Francis Darwin] intends publishing on inheritance.

They are working on physiology of plants [Movement in plants], but will not print for a year.

Thinks JVC’s new journal [Zoologische Anzeiger] will be of great use to students of zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11705

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: B140–1
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
Nature , 5 March 1891, p. 415
Summary:

Doubts that "the same well-characterized species should be produced in two distinct countries, or at two distinct times".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11707

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Buchanan White (Francis) (Buchanan) White
Date:
23 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland (205)
Summary:

Comments on FBW’s paper ["Hemipterous fauna of St Helena", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1878): 444–77].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11708

From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 9
Summary:

Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11709

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
Date:
[after 23 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 9v
Summary:

Thanks EBA for the copy of the Student’s Magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11710

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 311
Summary:

Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]

Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.

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

RS-MM-001023

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
9 September 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/48, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001024

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
13 September 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/49, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001025

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/50, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1735

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC658

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 38, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC659

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 39, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC660

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 40, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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