From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 24
Summary:
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326)
Summary:
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:
12 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 21
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.545)
Summary:
Regrets not seeing CD.
Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4r
Summary:
The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Francis Fisher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 121
Summary:
Discourses on the rights of animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:
CD grateful to EH for making his works known in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 43
Summary:
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
14 August 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/47, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 69: A76–7
Summary:
Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
CD cannot say he cares greatly about his election to the Institut but he does care for the sympathy of his friends.
Will look to Smilax when he returns to Down.
Regrets the insecurity of the identification of fossil leaves.
He has heard that De Bary has cultivated Utricularia with and without aquatic animals and that the plants that have been fed flourished "in a stupendous manner".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:
Climbing plants.
Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Kasimir Ledeganck; Jean Crocq
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 65
Summary:
CD made an honorary member of the Royal Society for Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
It would be false to pretend he cares very much about his election to the Institut.
Glad to hear GdeS plans to publish a work on the more ancient fossil plants. Hopes he will report also on the more recent Tertiary forms because the close gradation of such forms is "a fact of paramount importance for the principle of evolution".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[15] Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 4b)
Summary:
Enjoyed seeing HdeV yesterday.
Following the point mentioned by HdeV, CD has observed the difference in corrugation of primary roots in plants exposed to dry and damp soil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 215
Summary:
Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.42, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes about the very bad health of [John] Smith, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, whose doctors, Paget & Walshe, say he has a heart condition. Attacks of the illness often render Smith completely immobile, he has palpitations & severe pain. JDH goes on to give his own medical opinion that Smith has worsening heart disease but for Smith's state of mind it would be better not to have it officially diagnosed. JDH has not seen much of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [48th meeting, Dublin, Ireland]. However, he has sent Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer[WTTD] [William] Spottiswoode's address & [William Henry] Flower's paper on the Linnaean classification of mammals. JDH did not hear [Thomas Henry] Huxley's address as he spent the day with [Alexander] Moore, the Gardener at Glasnevin; where JDH admired the collection of tree ferns & the conifers. JDH has met Suringar & the man WTTD corresponds with about Sinapis glauca. [Alexander] Dickson, [John Hutton?] Balfour & [James] Britten all refused botanical visitors. JDH will take Flower's place at the Botany & Zoology section. Tickets to lectures at the Royal Dublin Society wer sold out to townspeople before any of the delegates arrived. The geologists' section has been quarrelling & 'set upon [William] Pengelly'. An afternoon given by the Lord Lieutenant, John Spencer-Churchill, at Vice Regal Lodge was ruined by bad weather. [John] Sadler has not turned up. JDH criticises the House of Commons office for printing the [Annual RBG Kew?] Report from an uncorrected copy. JDH has asked his son Charles Paget Hooker to visit his Aunt, & will probably send him to Edinburgh. JDH intends to go next to Killarney.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.43, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer about his travels in Ireland [with his wife Lady Hyacinth Hooker]. They have travelled from Dublin to Muckross in Killarney & seen the Torc Cascade with Suringar & a geologist, as well as the Gap of Dunloe & the lakes. From Muckross they went to Queenstown, Cork where they have met with [William Edward] Gumbleton & the Bagwells. JDH describes these people & their fine gardens, he particularly mentions the Fuchsias & Escallonias. At Cork JDH also met with Brady, who went to Morocco, [Archibald] Liversidege Professor of Geology at Sydney New South Wales, & the Miss Townsends with their uncle. JDH plans to see more gardens around Cork before returning to Dublin to see Glassnevin & Powerscourt & travelling on to Pendock.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 44
Summary:
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project