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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 103
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 104
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 105
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–80]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 254
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–9?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 830
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:
His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:
On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
1 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
Felter 1902, p. 124
Summary:
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 438
Summary:
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 121
Summary:
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 12
Summary:
The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Acland, Ellen1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Basterot, Bartholomew de1
- Baxter, W. W.1
- Clarke, Hyde1
- Dalziel, Hugh1
- Darwin, C. R.22
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard2
- Evans, John (b)1
- Farrer, William1
- Greaves, E. A.1
- Hadley, E. A.1
- Harrison, Ellen1
- Hart, W. E.1
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Kraus, Carl (b)1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Macleay, George1
- Meldola, Raphael2
- Mesía, Jacinto1
- Montero Ríos, Eugenio1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von10
- Nicols, Arthur1
- Parker, W. K.1
- Ramsay, Edward1
- Strahan, Alexander1
- Sturtevant, E. L.1
- Sylvester, James Joseph1
- Thayer, J. B.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Williamson, W. C.1
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