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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
29 May [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Hearty thanks for the two bottles of pure water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 260
Summary:

H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.

CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:

Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:

Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.

Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:

Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.

Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 151
Summary:

Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb – 8 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 49
Summary:

Requests some seeds.

Believes the leaves of Phyllanthus sleep like those of Cassia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
1 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Marius Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 48
Summary:

A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:

Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection)
Summary:

Fears that the promised bottle of pure water may have been despatched or stolen in passage. [See 11768a.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Jung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 94
Summary:

Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 104
Summary:

A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70)
Summary:

Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 Jan [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 152
Summary:

G[eorge] has visited A[nthony] R[ich] at Worthing.

Contributor:
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From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 184
Summary:

Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Jung
Date:
11 Jan 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
Summary:

Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 194
Summary:

Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.

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