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DCP-LETT-11599F

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Griffin Stokes
Date:
16 July [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Summary:

Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11614

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:

Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11640

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:
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DCP-LETT-11644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11652

From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.545)
Summary:

Regrets not seeing CD.

Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

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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:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-11700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].

Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11717

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Dec] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.551)
Summary:

Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
5 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for account of Fuegians

and news about old "Beaglers".

Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11750

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 [Nov 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552)
Summary:

CD will visit tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:
4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11780

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
9 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.554)
Summary:

Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.555)
Summary:

Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].

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