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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 125
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[27 August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 201
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[22 August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 652
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 875
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Jacob (Felix) Marchand
Date:
[c. 1 Aug 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 115v
Summary:
Thanks for his election to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Halle. Will send photograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Temple Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 177
Summary:
Lack of success in breeding horses in Bengal is related to damp climate. Encloses letter from F. G. Ravenhill concerning an unpublished report by the Stud Commission on animal breeds in Bengal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 Aug 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 63
Summary:
Tells arrangements for their journey to Coniston.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 160–1
Summary:
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
Date:
5 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 45a)
Summary:
Thanks ADeB for sending specimens of Utricularia to Francis [Darwin]. Urges him to publish his observations, because Utricularia differs widely from Drosera. CD has been unable to detect any evidence of true digestion in Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
5 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8267)
Summary:
Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 114–17
Summary:
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Richard (Dick) Atkin, Baron Atkin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 122
Summary:
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 22
Summary:
Experiments to determine mechanism of tendril curvature; importance of variations in cell turgidity. Contraction in roots caused by increased turgor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Liversidge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 77
Summary:
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 35
Summary:
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 134
Summary:
His experiments on nutrition of Utricularia are not sufficiently exact or complete to allow them to be published. He will resume experimentation and report to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 66
Summary:
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
12 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 6)
Summary:
Thanks for letter.
Comments on growth and movement of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 94
Summary:
Coniston is most beautiful, but CD finds "there are too many human beings for my taste".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project