From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 21
Summary:
Believes that weakness of hybrids explains Biblical injunctions against improper unions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 101–3
Summary:
Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s work to 29 April 1878 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.
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From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 92
Summary:
Gynodioecism in Ranunculus acris.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 93
Summary:
Gynodioecism.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 199–200
Summary:
Extract from Athenæum 11 May [1878], p. 606, of R. I. Lynch on germination of the provision tree.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 128
Summary:
Prof. Wood-Mason has examined Otto Zacharias’ insect photographs and confirmed the genera.
RM is going to work up Fritz Müller’s observations into a paper.
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105A: 99–100
Summary:
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
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From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 94
Summary:
Has found a few examples of Ranunculus repens with stamens reduced as in R. acris.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 304
Summary:
Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward William Fithian
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101
Summary:
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 227
Summary:
Pleased with CD’s praise of his work. He agrees with CD that intermediate marine fossils are rare in the same bed. The difficulty is overcome by extensive search of "isotopic" fauna in different beds of the same "isotopic" region.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 349
Summary:
Sends article on "Evolution" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.]. CD will be interested in Lamarck’s opinions in 1794.
Is working on crayfish and their distribution.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 109–10
Summary:
JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.
Contributor:
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From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 198
Summary:
Report of an "eight legged horse" considered to be an example of reversion.
Contributor:
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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 197
Summary:
Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 129
Summary:
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 48
Summary:
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 71
Summary:
Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].
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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 198
Summary:
Comments on positive response to publication [of Atlas]. CD’s approval will help make an English edition possible. Rejects suggestion that CD should subscribe.
Contributor:
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 73
Summary:
Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.
Contributor:
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Addressee
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Francis17
- Torbitt, James15
- Hooker, J. D.12
- Meldola, Raphael10
- Darwin, G. H.8
- Romanes, G. J.7
- Farrer, T. H.6
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.6
- Hacon, W. M.5
- Rich, Anthony4
- Sulivan, B. J.4
- Whitelegge, Thomas4
- Wilson, A. S.4
- Darwin, Leonard3
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Huxley, T. H.3
- Müller, Fritz3
- Semper, C. G.3
- Skertchly, S. B. J.3
- Alice2
- Allen, Grant2
- Asher, G. M.2
- Beneden, Édouard van2
- Blanche2
- Caird, James2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Dodel-Port, Arnold2
- Flower, W. H.2
- Floyer, E. A.2
- Fox, W. D.2
- Gaskell, G. A.2
- Goodacre, F. B.2
- Grant, James2
- John Murray2
- Kraus, Carl (b)2
- Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, Edmund2
- Müller, Hermann2
- Randolph, Richard2
- Saporta, Gaston de2
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Williamson, W. C.2
- Adams, A. L.1
- Allen, J. A. (b)1
- Arnold, F. S.1
- Austin, A. D.1
- Aveling, E. B.1
- Balfour, F. M.1
- Baxter, W. W.1
- Behrens, Wilhelm1
- Bentham, George1
- Bergson, Edouard1
- Bertrand, Joseph1
- Blair, R. A.1
- Broca, Paul1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Clarke, C. B.1
- Clarke, Hyde1
- Clarke, R. T.1
- Coghlan, John1
- Conway, M. D.1
- Cooper, J. D.1
- Crocq, Jean1
- Cupples, George1
- Dallinger, W. H.1
- Dalziel, Hugh1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Dobson, G. E.1
- Druitt, Thomas1
- Du Bois-Reymond, Emil1
- Dumas, Jean-Baptiste1
- Errera, L. A.1
- Evans, John (b)1
- Farn, A. B.1
- Farrer, William1
- Figuerola Ballester, Laureano1
- Fisher, J. F.1
- Fithian, E. W.1
- Franklin Society1
- Fry, C. E.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Gaudry, Albert1
- Giner de los Ríos, Hermenegildo1
- Gray, A. F.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Greaves, E. A.1
- Hadley, E. A.1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Harker, Allen1
- Hart, W. E.1
- Heldreich, Theodor von1
- Henslow, George1
- Houston, J. L.1
- Howell, J. W.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Johnson, Mary1
- Judd, J. W.1
- Kobell, Franz Ritter von1
- Layton, Charles1
- Ledeganck, Kasimir1
- Lewy (Halevi), Naphtali1
- Marshall, W. C.1
- Max, Gabriel1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Mesía, Jacinto1
- Michels, John1
- Middleton, R. M.1
- Montero Ríos, Eugenio1
- Moschkau, Alfred1
- Moseley, H. N.1
- Nicols, Arthur1
- Noyes, T. H.1
- Parker, W. K.1
- Potonié, Henry1
- Radovanović, Marinko1
- Reade, T. M.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Ridley, H. N.1
- Rolleston, George1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Sanguinetti, H. S.1
- Schobloch, Anton1
- Sherlock, T. T.1
- Simon, John1
- Smith, Frederick (a)1
- Spottiswoode, William1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Stecker, Anton1
- Strasburger, Eduard1
- Sturtevant, E. L.1
- Taylor, J. E.1
- Thayer, J. B.1
- Thomson, C. W.1
- Thomson, Robert1
- Tyndall, John1
- Vries, Hugo de1
- Wharton, W. J. L.1