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
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
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:
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:
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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:
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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:
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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
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:
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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
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:
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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:
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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
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
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
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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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:
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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
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