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FL-1412

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 April 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 869
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1413

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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FL-1417

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 875
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1419

From:
Farrer, Ida
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 September [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1050
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1426

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[July 1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1263
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1510

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[30 September 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 624
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1511

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[30 September 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 659
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1528

From:
Farrer, Ida
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[December? 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1065
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10001A

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

DCP-LETT-10341

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10342

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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DCP-LETT-11033

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

DCP-LETT-11541

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

DCP-LETT-11619

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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DCP-LETT-11814

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

DCP-LETT-11815

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

DCP-LETT-11817

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

DCP-LETT-11819

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

DCP-LETT-11820

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

DCP-LETT-11820A

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.]

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