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:
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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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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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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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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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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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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 120
Summary:
Apologises for taking liberty of request made in previous letter.
Tells CD ways in which large box of wheat specimens might be shipped from St Petersburg.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 35
Summary:
Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.
Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.
Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 29
Summary:
TMR believes rate of limestone formation is same now as in past.
He expects his address [of 10 Oct 1876] on geological time [Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35], which contradicts William Thomson’s view of the earth’s age, to appear soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Richard Randolph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 and 20 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 31
Summary:
A Quaker essayist and poet who seeks to reconcile science and religion sends some samples of his work.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 431
Summary:
Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 432
Summary:
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Reports butterfly species that apparently mimic each other and gives details of some odoriferous species.
[Letter copied in Raphael Meldola’s hand from original sent to Meldola with 11449.]
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 111
Summary:
On crossing Aegilops.
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 52: E2, DAR 178: 137
Summary:
Wants CD to forward to Chancellor of Exchequer a letter which explains the progress he has made in his potato crossing. Wants to print a CD letter to arouse public interest in the work.
Contributor:
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