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From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 69
Summary:

Asks for sketches of [Thalia] pistil, in which he is much interested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July [1878]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 68)
Summary:

Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-75)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 237
Summary:

Writes about [H. R. Hope-]Pinker, who tried to approach CD via the Royal Institution in order to sculpt a bust of him. WS advises against agreeing to sit for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project