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DCP-LETT-11665

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 180: 21
Summary:

Contraction of plant roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Ogle trans. 1878, pp. v–vi
Summary:

Is glad WO is undertaking the editing of Anton Kerner’s book [Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (1876)], which appears to open out "highly original & curious fields of research". [Used as prefatory letter to Kerner, Flowers and their unbidden guests, The translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878).]

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DCP-LETT-11668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 44
Summary:

Instructions to sow some seeds

and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.

Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[19 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4v
Summary:

Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11673

From:
Richard Randolph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 32
Summary:

Sends pamphlet.

Thanks CD for his reply.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11674F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Vignes
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
La France , 1 May 1882
Summary:

Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11677

From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

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DCP-LETT-11681

From:
Marinko Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 1
Summary:

His son, the Serbian translator of the Origin, has died.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

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