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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 113
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[11 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 114
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 179
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 180
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[26 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Stokes, G. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 August 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1908
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[late August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 650
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 867
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[16 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 832
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[23 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 881
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 215
Summary:
Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Summary:
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 42
Summary:
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 63
Summary:
CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 86: B19–20
Summary:
Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Adams, A. L.1
- Bates, Henry Walter1
- Behrens, Wilhelm1
- Bentham, George2
- Berkeley, Miles1
- Bertrand, Joseph2
- Blair, R. A.1
- Broca, Paul1
- Candolle, Alphonse de2
- Chalmers, James1
- Clarke, Mordaunt1
- Crocq, Jean1
- Crowell, Eugene1
- Darwin, C. R.55
- Darwin, Emma7
- Darwin, Francis8
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Darwin, Horace3
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Dumas, Jean-Baptiste2
- Duthie, John Firminger1
- Elliott, William1
- Errera, L. A.2
- Farrer, Ida1
- Fisher, J. F.2
- Flower, W. H.1
- Giner de los Ríos, Hermenegildo1
- Goodacre, F. B.3
- Gray, Asa3
- Günther, Albert1
- Heckel, Édouard1
- Hector, James2
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Ingleby, Clement Mansfield1
- Leared, Arthur1
- Ledeganck, Kasimir1
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Mueller, Ferdinand von10
- Ogle, William1
- Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius1
- Radovanović, Marinko1
- Ramsay, Edward1
- Randolph, Richard1
- Rolleston, George1
- Romanes, G. J.3
- Saporta, Gaston de2
- Stokes, G. G.1
- Stokes, George Gabriel1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.4
- Thiselton-Dyer, William1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner2
- Unidentified2
- Vignes, E.1
- Vries, Hugo de4
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Wharton, W. J. L.1
- Wilson, A. S.2
- Woolner, Thomas1
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