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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[1 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 123
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 124
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 199
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 200
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 648
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[17 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 870
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[July 1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1263
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[after 26] July [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 180–1)
Summary:
Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 136
Summary:
Starlings seem to share their food. Are they communists as they struggle for their existence?
Describes movement of a caterpillar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 1)
Summary:
Sends his autograph to HR for the Galerie internationale [1880].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Birkbeck Norman (George) (Birkbeck) Hill
Date:
1 July [1879]
Source of text:
G. B. Hill 1896, p. 58
Summary:
Thanks GBNH for a fact about CD’s grandfather [Erasmus Darwin], but he will not be able to use it in his brief notice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 61
Summary:
FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 60
Summary:
Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 334
Summary:
Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.
FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 16
Summary:
CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.
Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 85
Summary:
Francis wants a copy of a book on "Shakespeare’s merry tales" to present to a friend in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 July 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36188)
Summary:
Sends proofs of his preface [to EK’s Erasmus Darwin], with which he is disappointed. Suggests additions and improvements he would like to make.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 86
Summary:
Inquires concerning a possibility of searching old deeds about the Darwin family history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
