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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:
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:
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
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
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:
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
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
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
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 36
Summary:
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Stokes, G. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 August 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1908
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 24
Summary:
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[11 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 114
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:
12 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 21
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4r
Summary:
The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Francis Fisher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 121
Summary:
Discourses on the rights of animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 43
Summary:
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project