Search: 1870-1879::1878 in date 
letter in document-type 
Cambridge University Library in repository 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–20 of 436 items

DCP-LETT-11339

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:

Information on Cyclamen and other plants.

Identification of some plants.

"Bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11343

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:

AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].

Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.

Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.

[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-11447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
26 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 95
Summary:

James Caird does not think Torbitt’s success justifies application to Government. Torbitt has four acres planted with seedlings. Has sent back CD’s £100. Shall CD insist that he keep it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-11623

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Summary:

Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.

Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11628

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 and 25 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 60, DAR 209.6: 198
Summary:

Notes Julius Sachs’s opinion on the heliotropism of moulds: he can see no use in the response.

C. E. Stahl is working on swarm spores which can be made both helio- and apheliotropic.

Sachs has told him that some ferns sleep, and he suspects that some grasses may move.

Sachs also feels they may be working at bloom from a wrong point of view and suggests leaves may need to keep dry in order to keep their stomata open.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

FL-0246

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
24 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0247

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
28 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0248

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0249

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0250

From:
Darwin, Sara
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
9 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0251

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0252

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0253

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
29 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0327

From:
Hemmings, Henry
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
20 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0470

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0472

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0473

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0474

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0475

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[28 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 106
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

FL-0476

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 107
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available