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DCP-LETT-11418

From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 250
Summary:

Will publish Origin first

and then Descent.

AS is looking for a job in a zoological museum or accompanying an expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11420

From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 41
Summary:

Sends MS of his paper, "On the coloration of flowers and fruits", filling a gap in CD’s theory relating to these structures, and asks for CD’s comments.

Plans a book on colour sense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11421

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 94
Summary:

Hooker approves of Torbitt’s plan [concerning potato experiments]. Torbitt, wine and spirit merchant in Belfast, highly respectable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11419

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
13 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Authorises publication of a Bohemian edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11422

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 198
Summary:

Thanks CD for specimens of, and curious facts on, the "harvesting ant".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 436
Summary:

CD gives his opinion on how the physiological laboratory at Kew should be equipped. It would be a pity if the laboratory were not supplied with as many good instruments as their funds could provide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11424

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 139
Summary:

Talk of a subscription to help JT’s experiments. Progress of experiment; loss of fungus-resistance in varieties as they age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11423

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 113
Summary:

On germination of wheat.

Can supply Drosera if CD wants some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-03-15b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
15 March 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS B202, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-03-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
15 March 1878
Source of text:
N78/2607, unit 1082, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-03-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
15 March 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 209
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11426

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 140
Summary:

Potato crossing experiments. Encloses printed copies of letters from people who have grown his potato seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11428

From:
James Miller (James) Grant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 90
Summary:

Thanks CD for his kind reply. JG does not feel he can rely on instinct or "intuition" in relation to existence of God. Is there no analogy between natural organisations and mechanical constructions to justify an intelligent first cause?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
16 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 363
Summary:

Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11429F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Anton Stecker
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sends father’s regrets that CD will not be able to help Stecker as appointments are few in number and much sought after.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11429

From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for his gift of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11430

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 141
Summary:

Life history of potato varieties. Changes in fruit, flower, and seed production with increasing age of a variety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11431

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 107–8
Summary:

Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11432

From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 42
Summary:

Thanks for comments on paper and references to related works. Clarifies points on colour distinction between energy-absorbing (green) and energy-expending (bright-hued) portions of plants and on the influence of flower colour in modifying the insect organism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2357

From:
Francis Jeffrey Bell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 March 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 383-384
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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