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From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:

Sorry he was out when CD called.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 86: B1–2
Summary:

Observations on insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:

His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
Date:
[before 12 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 79
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 169
Summary:

Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509)
Summary:

Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 111
Summary:

Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.

Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
27 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 431
Summary:

Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 432
Summary:

Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:

Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

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

Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
1 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:

Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
Felter 1902, p. 124
Summary:

Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.

HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 438
Summary:

Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].

Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 121
Summary:

Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].

Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

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

Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.

Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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