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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 314
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 167: 34
Summary:

JBI on CD’s integrity and the separateness of science and religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
2 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2230)
Summary:

Thanks for the Blue Book [Report to the Local Government Board on the water supplied to London].

Gives instructions for sending the pure water.

Has sent for the Wenham ice.

Enjoyed his talk with EF.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.47, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH provides Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer with the address of Edward Delmar Morgan & asks him to send brochures & an Aponogeton to Edward de Regel there. There is a large party with JDH at Tortwort [Court], incl: Froude & daughter, Martin Theodore & wife, Lord & Lady Somers, Lord Aberdeen & daughter, Mr & Mrs York of Pendock, J Shaw Lefevre & his wife who is Lord Ducie's daughter, Alfred Denison brother of the late Speaker, Mrs Stewart or Stuart. When he returns JDH will arrange to send some Dahlias to Lady Ducie. JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to send him some leaves of Parrottia [Parrotia persica or Persian ironwood]. He notes that Ducie & Somers are both mad about their gardens & trees. JDH adds in a post script that he saw [Brian Harvey Houghton] Hodgson at the train station, he was going to Chippenham & looked very ill with gout. In a further post script JDH adds that he has visited Hodgson & he looked better.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Power
Date:
3 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Cambridge University Reporter , 7 December 1878, pp. 206–7
Summary:

Petition Cambridge University that candidates for an Honour degree may be relieved from the obligation of passing an examination in Greek.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:
4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965)
Summary:

Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 December 1878
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: C22
Summary:

Will provide the siren.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Crookes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 December 1878
Source of text:
Fournier d'Albe, E. E. (1923). In: The Life of Sir William Crookes . London: T. Fisher Unwin. [p. 295]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Dec] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.551)
Summary:

Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120
Summary:

Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.

Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
[after 6 Dec 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120v
Summary:

Gives CGS permission to use his letters in any way he thinks fit.

Discusses the direct effect of external conditions as an agent of change in organisms; has encountered many cases since the publication of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Cayley, Arthur
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 December 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1907
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 7 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 184
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 1
Summary:

Informs CD of his intention to bequeath his property to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8] Dec 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 86
Summary:

Thinks conservation of energy not evidence for Deity. Agrees with CD that there is little hope to illuminate subject with light of intellect. Intends to drop it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
9 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.554)
Summary:

Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project