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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[February 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 817
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 4 February 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield nee Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin nee Farrer, I.
Date:
4 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1635
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
4 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 245: 317
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
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
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
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
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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From:
Cookson, B. A.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12 February [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1919
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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