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DCP-LETT-11290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.529)
Summary:

Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
[1842–82?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536)
Summary:

Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
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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

DCP-LETT-1136

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
18 Nov [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66)
Summary:

Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.

Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Clapham
Date:
[29 Oct 1847?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47)
Summary:

Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.

Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531)
Summary:

CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:

Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.

Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Summary:

Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].

Can GJR visit Down?

Onions not yet up.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Dobson
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.

Does not recall bats at Galapagos.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
14 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535)
Summary:

Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.

Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Smith of Jordanhill
Date:
28 Jan [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks if he may have the use of the cirripedes JS collected in Portugal. He will need to break up or make a section of at least one of each species.

Expresses admiration for JS’s paper on Malta ["On recent depressions in the land", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 234–40], with its striking demonstration of the change of level between land and water there discovered.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 [May 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[6 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69)
Summary:

Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
9 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks questions about earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[5 or 6] Feb 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.72)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
12 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Contributor:
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