From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 136
Summary:
Comments on the branchiate trichopteran specimen from Fritz Müller sent previously.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 24
Summary:
Forwards a letter [missing] from her cousin relating to Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 144–5
Summary:
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (Wilhelm) Pfeffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 187
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 111
Summary:
Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 183
Summary:
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 73); DAR 177: 254
Summary:
There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 135
Summary:
Will see CD in Worthing next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 152
Summary:
Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project