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DCP-LETT-11309F

From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 12
Summary:

The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11311

From:
William James (William) Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 106
Summary:

Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.

Would like references to works on breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11311F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007)
Summary:

Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11312

From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 162
Summary:

Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11315

From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 150
Summary:

Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11316

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:

LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11317

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:

Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11318

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
11 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 Jan 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44)
Summary:

CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.

Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11320

From:
Edward Lewis Sturtevant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 269
Summary:

Encloses some notes on maize that may be useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
16 Jan 1878
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971)
Summary:

Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11321A

From:
Eugenio María (Eugenio) Montero Ríos; Jacinto Mesía
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 58
Summary:

CD elected an honorary professor of the Institucion Libre de Enseñanza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 466
Summary:

In London and wishes to meet JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11323

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:

Invites CD to Kew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11324

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 172: 66
Summary:

He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11326

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 105
Summary:

Insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11327

From:
Hugh Dalziel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 35
Summary:

A "dog fancier" and newspaper critic of dog shows, HD seeks CD’s opinion on the origin, cause, and use of "dew claws".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[20 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484)
Summary:

CD will call on Tuesday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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