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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Sara
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
9 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 28
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 29
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
14 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 117
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
28 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 118
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
31 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 127
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[10 October 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 183
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[after 12 October 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 649
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 176
Summary:
Encloses a cheque for £11.19.9. Will transmit £7.9.4 to Fritz Müller. Thanks for account of the sale of his books, which appears to be in a "lamentable state".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:
Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 115–17
Summary:
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
4 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of Strasburger’s essay on ‘swarmspores’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 140
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 118–20
Summary:
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Lister
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Godlee 1917, p. 387
Summary:
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
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Author
- Bailey, Frederick1
- Behrens, Wilhelm1
- Campbell, George John Douglas1
- Carruthers, William1
- Darwin, C. R.13
- Darwin, Emma6
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, Sara1
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Day, George1
- Forrest, Alexander1
- French, Charles1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Middleton, R. M.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von7
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Strasburger, Eduard1
- Torbitt, James2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel3
- Weir, John Jenner1
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