From:
Herbert Samuel Sanguinetti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 9r
Summary:
Change of address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 111–12
Summary:
JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.
Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 350
Summary:
Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 310
Summary:
Reports results of crosses between the two forms of Viola tricolor: 1. Female small flower crossed with male large flower yields all small flowers (cleistogamous self-fertilisation suspected); 2. Male small flower crossed with female large yields intermediate flowers; 3. Large flower crossed with large flower yields self-sterility symptoms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 57
Summary:
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.7: 157
Summary:
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July [1878]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 68)
Summary:
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 237
Summary:
Writes about [H. R. Hope-]Pinker, who tried to approach CD via the Royal Institution in order to sculpt a bust of him. WS advises against agreeing to sit for him.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 68
Summary:
Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 156–7, DAR 209.14: 88
Summary:
Chlorophyll development in oat seedling.
Lists the sleeping plants he has seen.
Julius Sachs thinks Hugo de Vries has not cleared up everything [about climbing plants]. But Sachs has not worked on the mechanical problem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 14–15, DAR 210.2: 69
Summary:
Sends drawings of specimens [of Thalia] CD requested.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 48
Summary:
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 95
Summary:
Has found examples of small female flowers in Stachys germanica and Ranunculus bulbosus.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 103
Summary:
Sends specimens.
Sensitive plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.1: 155; DAR 274.1: 50, 52
Summary:
More sleepers from green-house.
Julius Sachs’s view of climbing plants: he distinguishes between nutation to find a support and growth after support is found.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:
Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Druitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 9 (EH 88206061)
Summary:
Informs CD that certain cash from U. S. investments does not have income tax deducted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 59, DAR 209.8: 151
Summary:
Has been investigating nutational movements of climbing plants; comments on the opinions of Julius von Wiesner and Julius Sachs. Remarks on the sleep movements of certain plants and the mechanism of tendril curvature. Is experimenting with Porlieria.
Has visited K. G. Semper’s laboratory.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1878
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 382
Summary:
Is sending CD the seeds of a beautiful Cassia given to him by a friend. He sketched the unripe fruit a few months ago. This plant is rare in the area around Sta Catharina. He has found their largest and most beautiful butterfly Callidryas manippe near this tree and its caterpillars living on its leaves. Comments on how remarkable it is to find a species limited to living on a single tree in so large an area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 203
Summary:
Thanks CD for his condolences. Reminisces about their youth.
On the death of his naturalist friend, W. C. Hewitson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
