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DCP-LETT-11679

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 77
Summary:

Thanks for comments on his lecture ["Nervous system of Medusa"]

and for information [about J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 146–7)
Summary:

Heliotropism in roots.

Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11681

From:
Marinko Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 1
Summary:

His son, the Serbian translator of the Origin, has died.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 148–9)
Summary:

Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6307A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
6 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Stephan Loewentheil and the 19th Century Shop, Baltimore, Maryland (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

TW’s account of the Ourang is very curious. CD hopes to see the primate whenever he goes to London, but he is leaving home for three weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001022

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
14 August 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/47, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC172

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.64-65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he & his wife, Hyacinth, are in Ireland. Killarney weather is terrible. JDH comments on absence from Dublin of [William Henry] Harvey & [Edward] Wright but notes David Moore is keeping the botanic garden well. Has recently been in touch with: [Daniel] Hanbury, Charles Dwight Marsh, Robert Lambourne & George Davidson of the Pacific Coast Survey. Discusses his work on the genus Amaranth for the GENERA PLANTARUM, he has referred to Martius' work. JDH gives news of his family: his sister Maria [McGilvray] & husband are unwell, 1 of their children is a tea planter in India. Hooker's son Charles Paget Hooker has failed his medical exams. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has gone to Barmen to study German & will then go to School of Mines. John Smith [Curator of Kew] has been seriously unwell, William Thiselton-Dyer has been left in charge of RBG Kew. Mentions: a letter to Wesley; the opinion of [Harvey Wilson] Harkness & [John] Muir on Sequoia trunks; & the Miocene flora of Iceland. Discusses geology, specifically his & Gray's differing opinions on glacial formation of granite valleys in the USA & contemporary formation of land masses. Discusses biogeography: Gray's thinking on commonalities in the Greenland & North American Flora. Disputes the correct classification of: Draba streptocarpa, Arenaria uliginosa & A. rossii. Discusses the correct name of the Cypress Point [California] Cupressus; is it a form of common American tree C. macrocarpa? C. goveniana is different & C. macnabiana still uncertain. Mentions C. lambertiana seed collected by Ruprecht possibly on Krusenstern's expedition. Disagrees with Gray, re. climate & the relative importance of the equator & poles. Does not understand why Gray has called Olive a deciduous tree, or his comments on drought. Mentions specimens of a Texas Amaranth. Discusses Gray's book INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY & CLASSIFICATION, [Julius von] Sachs history of botany & politician Sir Trevor Lawrence's motion about opening Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1734

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
2 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC394

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.42, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes about the very bad health of [John] Smith, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, whose doctors, Paget & Walshe, say he has a heart condition. Attacks of the illness often render Smith completely immobile, he has palpitations & severe pain. JDH goes on to give his own medical opinion that Smith has worsening heart disease but for Smith's state of mind it would be better not to have it officially diagnosed. JDH has not seen much of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [48th meeting, Dublin, Ireland]. However, he has sent Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer[WTTD] [William] Spottiswoode's address & [William Henry] Flower's paper on the Linnaean classification of mammals. JDH did not hear [Thomas Henry] Huxley's address as he spent the day with [Alexander] Moore, the Gardener at Glasnevin; where JDH admired the collection of tree ferns & the conifers. JDH has met Suringar & the man WTTD corresponds with about Sinapis glauca. [Alexander] Dickson, [John Hutton?] Balfour & [James] Britten all refused botanical visitors. JDH will take Flower's place at the Botany & Zoology section. Tickets to lectures at the Royal Dublin Society wer sold out to townspeople before any of the delegates arrived. The geologists' section has been quarrelling & 'set upon [William] Pengelly'. An afternoon given by the Lord Lieutenant, John Spencer-Churchill, at Vice Regal Lodge was ruined by bad weather. [John] Sadler has not turned up. JDH criticises the House of Commons office for printing the [Annual RBG Kew?] Report from an uncorrected copy. JDH has asked his son Charles Paget Hooker to visit his Aunt, & will probably send him to Edinburgh. JDH intends to go next to Killarney.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC395

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.43, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer about his travels in Ireland [with his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker]. They have travelled from Dublin to Muckross in Killarney & seen the Torc Cascade with Suringar & a geologist, as well as the Gap of Dunloe & the lakes. From Muckross they went to Queenstown, Cork where they have met with [William Edward] Gumbleton & the Bagwells. JDH describes these people & their fine gardens, he particularly mentions the Fuchsias & Escallonias. At Cork JDH also met with Brady, who went to Morocco, [Archibald] Liversidege Professor of Geology at Sydney New South Wales, & the Miss Townsends with their uncle. JDH plans to see more gardens around Cork before returning to Dublin to see Glassnevin & Powerscourt & travelling on to Pendock.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-08-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 August 1878
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
1 August 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3606), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-03

From:
William Elliott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 August 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928, f. 326
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Mordaunt Clarke
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), p. 1216
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-05a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-05b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3579), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Albert Günther
Date:
12 August 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Keeper's Archives, (Zoological Department) letters 1878 vol. 5, f. 265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-08-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 August 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 220
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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