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DCP-LETT-5825

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:

The amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 67
Summary:

CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11343

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:

AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].

Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.

Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.

[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:

Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.

Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11346

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105: B103
Summary:

Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
4 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Conry 1972, p. 118
Summary:

The Permian fossil sent by GdeS has stirred up the Kew botanists. Hooker suggests it was a Ceratopteris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10832

From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 169
Summary:

Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11335

From:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 136
Summary:

Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Sends Greek translation of CD’s "Sketch of an infant".

Is working for Greek acceptance of Darwinism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11348

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 71
Summary:

Sends birthday wishes.

Discusses his work on the Challenger [expedition] Radiolaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Adolf (Martin) Beckhard
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 73
Summary:

Thanks him for works by Lazarus Geiger [probably Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit (1871)

and Der Ursprung der Sprache, 2d ed. (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11351

From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 103
Summary:

Thanks for photograph.

Sends birthday greetings.

Regrets CD has not lately published in Kosmos.

Requests photograph of CD’s family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 280
Summary:

Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].

Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10827

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
Date:
[before 12 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 79
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11355

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 202
Summary:

Congratulates CD on his birthday.

WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/44 [9897])
Summary:

Thanks EH for birthday greetings.

Mentions his work on movement of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thanks RM for his interesting paper ["Entomological notes bearing on evolution", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. 1 (1878): 155].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11357

From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 119
Summary:

Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74)
Summary:

CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11356

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
Summary:

Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11359

From:
James Lennox Houston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 273
Summary:

Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.

Contributor:
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