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DCP-LETT-11571

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 188
Summary:

Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

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DCP-LETT-11572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
27 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 8
Summary:

Congratulates JWJ on marriage.

Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].

Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].

CD’s health better than a few years ago.

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DCP-LETT-11573

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 67
Summary:

Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.

Erasmus is unwell.

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DCP-LETT-11574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 105
Summary:

Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.

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DCP-LETT-11575

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:

Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.

Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.

[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]

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DCP-LETT-11576

From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 34
Summary:

The results of WHD’s long series of investigations of effects of steadily and slowly altered environment on putrefactive organisms "palpably demonstrate [CD’s] great doctrine".

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DCP-LETT-11577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 31
Summary:

Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.

Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.

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DCP-LETT-12131F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:

Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.

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