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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 314
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 7 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 184
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[10 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 185
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[14 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 186
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 187
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[9 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 235
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Cayley, Arthur
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 December 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1907
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Dec] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.551)
Summary:
Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 167: 34
Summary:
JBI on CD’s integrity and the separateness of science and religion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
2 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2230)
Summary:
Thanks for the Blue Book [Report to the Local Government Board on the water supplied to London].
Gives instructions for sending the pure water.
Has sent for the Wenham ice.
Enjoyed his talk with EF.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Power
Date:
3 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Cambridge University Reporter , 7 December 1878, pp. 206–7
Summary:
Petition Cambridge University that candidates for an Honour degree may be relieved from the obligation of passing an examination in Greek.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:
4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965)
Summary:
Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
[1]4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 106
Summary:
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: C22
Summary:
Will provide the siren.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Sorell Arnold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 148
Summary:
Would like CD to explain how he reconciles two passages in 6th ed. of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120
Summary:
Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.
Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Arnold, F. S.1
- Atkinson, Edward Derwent1
- Bagot, Ulysses1
- Brown, John1
- Cayley, Arthur1
- Cooper, J. D.1
- Crookes, William1
- Darwin, C. R.27
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, Emma7
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Dickinson, James1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Hacon, W. M.3
- Hill, Walter1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Max, Gabriel1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Mitchell, Graham1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von2
- Rich, Anthony4
- Romanes, G. J.1
- Royal Horticultural Society1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Somerville, Martha1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Torbitt, James1
- Tyndall, John1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wallace, John1
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