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DCP-LETT-11460

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
1 Apr 1878
Source of text:
University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01)
Summary:

Glad to hear of Ernst Haeckel’s reception in Vienna.

R. Virchow’s address ["Liberty of science", Nature 17 (1877–8): 72–4, 92–4, 111–13] very arrogant.

Sorry to hear of death of Arthur Lane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
2 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 281
Summary:

On his discovery of ova of Flustra.

"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11462

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
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FVM-78-04-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
4 April 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11463

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Observations on a sensitive Mimosa.

Comments on structure and positioning of "odoriferous organs" of moths and butterflies,

and feeding habits of butterfly larvae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 114–15)
Summary:

Review of Forms of flowers [Nature 17 (1878): 445–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
8 Apr 1878
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.5)
Summary:

It is important that notion of "small antiquity" of the earth be upset.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1758

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
8 April 1878
Source of text:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies: George Griffiths Autograph Letters Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Summary:

Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].

Can GJR visit Down?

Onions not yet up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11467

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11469

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 70
Summary:

Thanks for letter of sympathy.

Would like to visit in May.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
11 Apr 1878
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:

Asks whether WHF has had time to look at goose’s wing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC650

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 32, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FL-1373

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
12 April 1878
Source of text:
DAR 258: 824
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11472

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Dobson
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.

Does not recall bats at Galapagos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11471

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.534)
Summary:

Bones in goose’s wing perfectly normal. Malformation probably due to want of balance in muscles; analogous to club-foot. Injury of the parent not reproduced in offspring, but may have led to disturbance in functions of nerves which control muscles. Would like further study.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-04-12a

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 April 1878
Source of text:
No. 1717, pp. 848-9, unit 48, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of 14 of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

WCP2358

From:
Alfred Hart Everett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 April 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 385-386
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
13 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:

Will ask Blair for more [goose] wing specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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