From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[10 or 11 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 4a)
Summary:
Arranges for HdeV to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 3)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 314
Summary:
Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 36
Summary:
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 24
Summary:
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326)
Summary:
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:
12 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 21
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4r
Summary:
The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:
CD grateful to EH for making his works known in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Francis Fisher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 121
Summary:
Discourses on the rights of animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 69: A76–7
Summary:
Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 43
Summary:
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:
Climbing plants.
Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
CD cannot say he cares greatly about his election to the Institut but he does care for the sympathy of his friends.
Will look to Smilax when he returns to Down.
Regrets the insecurity of the identification of fossil leaves.
He has heard that De Bary has cultivated Utricularia with and without aquatic animals and that the plants that have been fed flourished "in a stupendous manner".
Contributor:
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Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society5
- Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)1
- Archives de la famille de Candolle1
- Artis Library3
- Cambridge University Library39
- Dr John Goodacre (private collection)2
- Gallery of History (dealers), Georgetown1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium2
- Heritage Auctions (dealers)1
- Houghton Library, Harvard University1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Natural History Museum and Archives2
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond11
- Royal Society1
- Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa2
- Thomas L. Edsall, 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop (dealer)1
- Yale University, Beinecke Library1
- FEWER