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DCP-LETT-11699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Sept 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549)
Summary:

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].

Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
5 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for account of Fuegians

and news about old "Beaglers".

Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11750

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 [Nov 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552)
Summary:

CD will visit tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11770

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:
4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11780

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
9 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.554)
Summary:

Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.555)
Summary:

Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:

Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11812

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:

Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:

Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Butler Cheadle
Date:
31 Jan 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559)
Summary:

Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Summary:

Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11916

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.561)
Summary:

Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11928

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.562)
Summary:

Comments on book by LAE and Gustave Gevaert [see 11916].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 [May] 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.564)
Summary:

Does not feel competent to judge on matters of measurement. R. B. Litchfield to look into case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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