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DCP-LETT-11570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 29–30
Summary:

Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.

Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.

Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11571

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 188
Summary:

Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
27 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 8
Summary:

Congratulates JWJ on marriage.

Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].

Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].

CD’s health better than a few years ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11573

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 67
Summary:

Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.

Erasmus is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 105
Summary:

Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11575

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:

Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.

Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.

[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11576

From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 34
Summary:

The results of WHD’s long series of investigations of effects of steadily and slowly altered environment on putrefactive organisms "palpably demonstrate [CD’s] great doctrine".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 31
Summary:

Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.

Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12131F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:

Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC656

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 36, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC657

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 37, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC805

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Joseph Whitworth
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.107, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-06-00

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
June 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
4 June 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-10c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 June 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 218
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Wöhler
Date:
11 June 1878
Source of text:
Archiv-Sammlung Wachs, no. 407, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
20 June 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Lord Arthur Russell
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Correspondence, 1871–80, Mueller, F
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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