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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[late August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 650
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 August 1878
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
1 August 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3606), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 113
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
2 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Summary:

Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:

Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.

Sleeping plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 42
Summary:

Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.

Thanks him for information on heliotropism.

Discusses sleep movements

and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
3 August 1878
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.25 (50)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Elliott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 August 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928, f. 326
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:

Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:

Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:

Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.

Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 314
Summary:

Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 63
Summary:

CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3579), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Mordaunt Clarke
Date:
5 August 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), p. 1216
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 86: B19–20
Summary:

Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.

On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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