From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
19 July 1878
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/57)
Summary:
Offers to give CGS a writing machine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Offers to give CGS a writing machine.
Letter informing Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of the death of JDH's niece Willielma Campbell née Hooker. Her mother Isabella [Whitehead Hooker] has not been clear about the cause of Willielma's death. She will be buried at the Glasgow necropolis near the High Church. JDH & family will travel to Glasgow & stay at the Royal Hotel, Georges' Square.
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.