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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[1 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 123
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 124
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 199
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 200
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 648
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[17 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 870
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[July 1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1263
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 136
Summary:
Starlings seem to share their food. Are they communists as they struggle for their existence?
Describes movement of a caterpillar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 61
Summary:
FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 60
Summary:
Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 334
Summary:
Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.
FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 16
Summary:
CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.
Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 85
Summary:
Francis wants a copy of a book on "Shakespeare’s merry tales" to present to a friend in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 86
Summary:
Inquires concerning a possibility of searching old deeds about the Darwin family history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: B106–7
Summary:
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 102
Summary:
CD has corrected the first proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] and so returns RD’s books. CD is disappointed with his work and fears RD will be also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 61
Summary:
Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B31–2
Summary:
Has received printed sheets from CD. Hopes CD does not intend to delete anything. EK comments on value of his own sketch for Erasmus Darwin.
Hopes CD can excuse article he wrote in response to a review of Grant Allen’s book [The colour-sense (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 200
Summary:
Points to CD’s favourable notice of his anthropological work;
details current financial difficulties and work efforts. Asks to borrow £5.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Blake, C. C.1
- Chester, J. L.1
- Coan, T. M.1
- Dallas, W. S.2
- Darwin, C. R.39
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, Emma5
- Darwin, Francis8
- Darwin, G. H.8
- Darwin, Horace1
- Darwin, Leonard3
- Darwin, Reginald2
- Darwin, Sara1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Farrer, Ida1
- Gladstone, W. E.1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Hensgen, Carl1
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Innes, J. B.1
- Krause, Ernst2
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Marchand, Felix1
- Marston, Ann1
- O’Callaghan, E. H.1
- Paget, James1
- Rich, Anthony2
- Wilks, Samuel1
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