From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
22 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].
CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966)
Summary:
Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 329)
Summary:
About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Sorell Arnold
Date:
31 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 21
Summary:
Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:
Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project