From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
2 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 281
Summary:
On his discovery of ova of Flustra.
"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."
Contributor:
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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 144
Summary:
Thanks for £100; will pay for planting this year’s varieties.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Travers Sherlock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 157
Summary:
Encloses some notes on Descent [2d ed.]. Discusses CD’s contention [p. 130] that natural selection could not act to increase altruistic behaviour in man; considers that the benefits conferred upon a person exhibiting such virtues would outweigh the threat to survival that such behaviour would pose.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
12 April 1878
Source of text:
DAR 258: 824
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Edward Dobson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 193
Summary:
Sends CD two specimens of Fuchsia monstrosities.
He is writing on the geographical distribution of Cheiroptera and can find no information on presence or absence of bats in the Galapagos. Did CD see any there?
Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14–20] Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 304
Summary:
Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Potonié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 58
Summary:
Points out evolutionary comments by Alexander Braun in his Betrachtungen über die Erscheinung der Verjüngung in der Natur 1849–50.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Potonié
Date:
20 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 249a
Summary:
Thanks for information [about early evolutionary views of Alexander Braun].
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 April 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 169
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 156
Summary:
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
24 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 364
Summary:
Sends specimens of Russian wheat variety kubanka, which after sowing for two years degenerates into a different variety, saxonka. Suggests that ASW conduct experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 34
Summary:
Encloses two photos [missing].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 111
Summary:
Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.
Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 226
Summary:
Sends the first part [of Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)], which explains the coral reefs of the Triassic in terms of CD’s theory and discusses the imperfection of the geological record.
Contributor:
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From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 135
Summary:
Asks for CD’s autograph and photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
29 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 365
Summary:
Thanks for specimen.
Always was sceptical of James Buckman’s experiment; heard afterwards that cruel trick was played on him.
Glad ASW is willing to look into Russian wheat case.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 April 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 170
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters