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FVM-78-07-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Malcolm Fraser
Date:
7 July 1878
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's Office, SDUR/M8/900B, State Records Office of WA, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11594

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11596

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
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FVM-78-07-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Decaisne
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-07-08a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
VPRS 5831/PO/7, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, p. 160, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-07-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
9 July 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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WCP2363

From:
Othniel Charles Marsh
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 393-394
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11599F

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11597

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11597F

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

DCP-LETT-11598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-75)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on reading Times report of death of WDF’s daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11599

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11600

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11601

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.

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FL-0817

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

DCP-LETT-11604

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.

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DCP-LETT-11602

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5358

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
12 July 1878
Source of text:
Yale University Library, Manuscript and Archives: Othniel Charles Marsh Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, series I, general correspondence, f. 17703
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11603

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 71
Summary:

Thanks GHD for his drawings [of Thalia]. Some parts need attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 35, 36, 39
Summary:

Asks for list of families of sleeping plants. Believes sleep is merely modified circumnutation at a particular time of day.

Porlieria has had no water for some time but shows no sign of flagging.

Describes the response of Thalia flowers to touch.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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