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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.
Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 32
Summary:
Suggests FD call on Carl Semper.
Inquires about Porlieria: Do the leaves shut to check evaporation? Does it appear silver under water?
Explains how he thinks the pulvinus acts; wishes FD would investigate the point.
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:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 199
Summary:
JIR’s brother writes from India in support of the protective function of plant sensitivity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 473
Summary:
CD contributes £200 to JDH’s Royal Society fund.
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 33
Summary:
Has a magnificent bush of Porlieria. There is no vestige of bloom; CD will test for sleep movements. Reports successful experiments on temperature-induced sensitivity of radicles.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 34
Summary:
Describes sleep movements in Porlieria and his experiments on movements of radicles.
Thalia flowers have interesting mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
7 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 83
Summary:
Has been approached by [H. R. Hope-]Pinker who wishes to sculpt him for the Royal Institution; asks whether WS has any knowledge of the matter.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 69
Summary:
Asks for sketches of [Thalia] pistil, in which he is much interested.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
11 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 70
Summary:
Rejoices that "Lagrange’s case does not seem very bad".
CD is working hard at dissecting Thalia. Has recovered some handiness with microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 178
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
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