From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 144
Summary:
Thanks for £100; will pay for planting this year’s varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Travers Sherlock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 157
Summary:
Encloses some notes on Descent [2d ed.]. Discusses CD’s contention [p. 130] that natural selection could not act to increase altruistic behaviour in man; considers that the benefits conferred upon a person exhibiting such virtues would outweigh the threat to survival that such behaviour would pose.
Contributor:
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From:
George Edward Dobson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 193
Summary:
Sends CD two specimens of Fuchsia monstrosities.
He is writing on the geographical distribution of Cheiroptera and can find no information on presence or absence of bats in the Galapagos. Did CD see any there?
Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14–20] Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 304
Summary:
Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Potonié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 58
Summary:
Points out evolutionary comments by Alexander Braun in his Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur 1849–50.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 156
Summary:
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 34
Summary:
Encloses two photos [missing].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 111
Summary:
Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.
Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 226
Summary:
Sends the first part [of Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)], which explains the coral reefs of the Triassic in terms of CD’s theory and discusses the imperfection of the geological record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 135
Summary:
Asks for CD’s autograph and photograph.
Contributor:
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