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DCP-LETT-11339

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:

Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

Contributor:
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FL-0470

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0472

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 103
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0473

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0474

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 105
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0636

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 35
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1136

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–80]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 254
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1377

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–9?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 830
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-10077

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:
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DCP-LETT-10332

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.

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DCP-LETT-11302

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:
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DCP-LETT-11304

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:
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DCP-LETT-11307

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:
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DCP-LETT-11308

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:
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DCP-LETT-11309F

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:
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DCP-LETT-11311

From:
William James (William) Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 106
Summary:

Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.

Would like references to works on breeding.

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DCP-LETT-11312

From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 162
Summary:

Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11315

From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 150
Summary:

Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.

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DCP-LETT-11316

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:

LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.

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DCP-LETT-11317

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:

Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.

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