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DCP-LETT-11685

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 65
Summary:

Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.547)
Summary:

Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
3 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

The geese have arrived. Does not think FBG’s view that the two forms are domestic varieties will hold good. Many ornithologists put them in different genera, and the wild type of each is known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-09-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
4 September 1878
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP3105

From:
Charles Algernon ("Algernon", "Ally", "Naturae Amator") Wilson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[4-5 Sept. 1878]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 49-51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0821

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 September 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 182
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP2366

From:
Augustus Mongredien
To:
Alfred Russel? Wallace?
Date:
9 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 399-400
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001023

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
9 September 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/48, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP2367

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 401
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11687

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 79
Summary:

Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC658

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 38, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11688

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 136
Summary:

Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11690F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 44
Summary:

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5431

From:
Thomas Wonnacott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 September 1878
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

Letter of recommendation for ARW from the architect of The Dell.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2368

From:
Thomas Fowell Buxton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 September [1878?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 402-403
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11689

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 146
Summary:

Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3813

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 September 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 [Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 46
Summary:

Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11691

From:
Clarence Edmund Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 218
Summary:

Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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