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DCP-LETT-11517

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

RM should take no more trouble over the subject [Otto Zacharias’ photos; see 11510].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5)
Summary:

Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11519

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Beal
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections (W. J. Beal Papers UA.17.4 box 891 folder 1)
Summary:

Thanks for his notice of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[21? May 1878]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 May 1878, pp. 120–1
Summary:

CD’s letter on wide distribution of freshwater plants and animals introduces a letter to him from Arthur H. Gray [see 11497].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11521

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Fairfield Gray
Date:
21 May [1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks AFG for his interesting communication. Has sent it to Nature for publication [see 11497].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11522A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
21 May [1878]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110)
Summary:

Hopes that the enclosure [11497] is worth printing in Nature [see Nature (30 May 1878)]. A wood-cut would add interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Thomson
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Cannot express opinion on RT’s views on earthquakes. To do good work on that subject a man must be deeply versed in wave motions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11529

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

Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wallis Nash
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 137
Summary:

Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Fithian
Date:
[31 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101v
Summary:

Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:

Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 383
Summary:

Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7)
Summary:

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 249: 73
Summary:

Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Kesteven
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 16 (EH 88206068)
Summary:

Feels WHK’s views on the origin of tumbling in pigeons are very likely correct.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 June [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331)
Summary:

Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11551

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

Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
15 June 1878
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.

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".

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