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From:
Charles French
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 April 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 387-388
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 33, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
14 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535)
Summary:
Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.
Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
14 April 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509)
Summary:
Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
17 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Would like to have some insect photographs identified; they seem to show pretty and new case of protective resemblance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
17 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library (Collection no. 0204, Lion Feuchtwanger papers, Box 01)
Summary:
Doesn’t know anything about the insects in question, but has sent the photographs on to an expert in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1878]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160)
Summary:
FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).
Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
21 April 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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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:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
22 Apr 1878
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Will be happy to subscribe to support Jemmy FitzRoy Button. Supposes BJS has considered whether it would be a real kindness to educate the boy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 34
Summary:
Encloses two photos [missing].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Page Hopps
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 April 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 389
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
26 Apr 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:
Congratulates correspondent on appointment to important post.
Leaving tomorrow for visit [with William Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project