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From:
Henry Eeles Dresser
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 9-10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Hamilton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 91
Summary:
Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Höchberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 227
Summary:
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin)
Summary:
Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1)
Summary:
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Engelmann
Date:
22 February 1879
Source of text:
George Engelmann papers, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 February 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: GEB/1/10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 11-12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 13-15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Stecker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 251
Summary:
Has not been able to complete Bohemian edition of Origin because of trip to Africa.
Is collecting zoological evidence for CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 336
Summary:
Did not wish to imply that some leaves are insensitive to light, only that he could not measure their sensitivity. Contraction of roots seems common.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 12
Summary:
CD cannot find his pincers and other tools for microscopical dissection. Does FD know where he should look?
Hopes FD will feel better after "so complete a change" [trip to North Africa].
Sends his love to George.
Bernard gets more charming every day.
CD has been put on a committee for a memorial fund for W. K. Clifford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 60
Summary:
Directs CD where to find tools in his room. Has been looking at agave and aloe flowers. Thanks family for their letters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 71)
Summary:
Thanks CD profusely for the circular which detailed his and Emma Darwin’s plans to increase their children’s income. Thinks a few hundred really makes the difference for feeling really rich, especially as he now knows how important it is for bankers to have available personal savings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Summary:
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl August Lindvall
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (MS C. A. Lindvall)
Summary:
CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.
Encloses his photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 [Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Summary:
Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:
Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Kell Blyth
Date:
26 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1432, 2009)
Summary:
Details of publications by G. H. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Nicholas Bourdet (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for sending him work on the skull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project