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DCP-LETT-10173

From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B1–2
Summary:

Observations on insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
27 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 31a/404)
Summary:

Thinks most of the experimental onions have died. Suspects the red and white were distinct species. If GJR is not "sick of the whole job" he might try with radishes or carrots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.547)
Summary:

Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11685

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 65
Summary:

Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
3 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

The geese have arrived. Does not think FBG’s view that the two forms are domestic varieties will hold good. Many ornithologists put them in different genera, and the wild type of each is known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11687

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 79
Summary:

Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11688

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 136
Summary:

Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11689

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 146
Summary:

Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11690F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 44
Summary:

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11691

From:
Clarence Edmund Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 218
Summary:

Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 [Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 46
Summary:

Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11693

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: B138–9
Summary:

Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.

Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baruch Jakob Placzek
Date:
15 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 244
Summary:

Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].

A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11696

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 147
Summary:

Apologises for his error over the Solanum.

Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11697

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 106
Summary:

Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
20 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 439
Summary:

Writing on vegetable physiology.

Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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