From:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2[5] Nov 188[0]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11b
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
25 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
Will be pleased to have VOK come to Down any day.
Contributor:
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From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 37
Summary:
Thanks for Movement in plants.
Describes work [on Pflanzenphysiologie, 2 vols. (1881)].
Contributor:
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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 71
Summary:
Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].
Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carlos Ribeiro
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918)
Summary:
Thanks for his great work on prehistoric remains in Portugal and his paper on Tertiary formations.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 87
Summary:
Praise for Movement in plants.
He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[after 25 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].
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