From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[19 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4v
Summary:
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[20 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 179
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
20 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks FBG for his offer [of geese for breeding experiments] but cannot undertake anything. Suggests FBG or any friend cross half-bred birds for a few generations; it would be a valuable contribution to science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 August 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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.64-65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he & his wife, Hyacinth, are in Ireland. Killarney weather is terrible. JDH comments on absence from Dublin of [William Henry] Harvey & [Edward] Wright but notes David Moore is keeping the botanic garden well. Has recently been in touch with: [Daniel] Hanbury, Charles Dwight Marsh, Robert Lambourne & George Davidson of the Pacific Coast Survey. Discusses his work on the genus Amaranth for the GENERA PLANTARUM, he has referred to Martius' work. JDH gives news of his family: his sister Maria [McGilvray] & husband are unwell, 1 of their children is a tea planter in India. Hooker's son Charles Paget Hooker has failed his medical exams. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has gone to Barmen to study German & will then go to School of Mines. John Smith [Curator of Kew] has been seriously unwell, William Thiselton-Dyer has been left in charge of RBG Kew. Mentions: a letter to Wesley; the opinion of [Harvey Wilson] Harkness & [John] Muir on Sequoia trunks; & the Miocene flora of Iceland. Discusses geology, specifically his & Gray's differing opinions on glacial formation of granite valleys in the USA & contemporary formation of land masses. Discusses biogeography: Gray's thinking on commonalities in the Greenland & North American Flora. Disputes the correct classification of: Draba streptocarpa, Arenaria uliginosa & A. rossii. Discusses the correct name of the Cypress Point [California] Cupressus; is it a form of common American tree C. macrocarpa? C. goveniana is different & C. macnabiana still uncertain. Mentions C. lambertiana seed collected by Ruprecht possibly on Krusenstern's expedition. Disagrees with Gray, re. climate & the relative importance of the equator & poles. Does not understand why Gray has called Olive a deciduous tree, or his comments on drought. Mentions specimens of a Texas Amaranth. Discusses Gray's book INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY & CLASSIFICATION, [Julius von] Sachs history of botany & politician Sir Trevor Lawrence's motion about opening Kew.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[23 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 881
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
23 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Has changed his mind and would like some of FBG’s hybrids to breed from. Feels he should not lose the chance of perhaps recording the fertility of hybrids of two distinct species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Randolph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 32
Summary:
Sends pamphlet.
Thanks CD for his reply.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Vignes
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
La France , 1 May 1882
Summary:
Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 144–5)
Summary:
Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.
Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.
Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 180
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 867
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[26 August 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:
26 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Gallery of History (dealers) (15 January 1997)
Summary:
Sends address of Fritz Müller.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 August 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 August 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 220
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:
Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.
Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
Summary:
Thanks him for ["Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bestäubungstheorie", in Program der Königlichen Gewerbeschule zu Elberfeld, 1877/78 (1879)]. Agrees with appreciation of Carl Sprengel’s work. Rejoices how highly GWJB appreciates Hermann Müller.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project