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DCP-LETT-6307A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
6 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Stephan Loewentheil and the 19th Century Shop, Baltimore, Maryland (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

TW’s account of the Ourang is very curious. CD hopes to see the primate whenever he goes to London, but he is leaving home for three weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11642

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:

CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:

Agrees to read manuscript if short.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11645F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 3)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11648

From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 36
Summary:

Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1240

From:
Stokes, G. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 August 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1908
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:

Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea

and about wasps on Scrophularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11643

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[10 or 11 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 4a)
Summary:

Arranges for HdeV to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:

GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11650

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
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FL-0483

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[11 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 114
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11651

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
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WCP3567

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 August 1878
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 WALLACE A. RUSSEL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11653

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:
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DCP-LETT-11652

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
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FVM-78-08-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Albert Günther
Date:
12 August 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Keeper's Archives, (Zoological Department) letters 1878 vol. 5, f. 265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11653A

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

DCP-LETT-11656

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:
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DCP-LETT-11654

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
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