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DCP-LETT-11685

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 65
Summary:

Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0821

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 September 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 182
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11688

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 136
Summary:

Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

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DCP-LETT-11690F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 44
Summary:

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 45
Summary:

Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11689

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 146
Summary:

Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 [Sept 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 46
Summary:

Asks what position the sub-peduncles assume when the main flower peduncle of Oxalis is tied so as to be horizontal.

Asks whether FD can find some plants at Kew for CD to trace epinastic and hyponastic movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11691

From:
Clarence Edmund Fry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 218
Summary:

Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11693

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: B138–9
Summary:

Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.

Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].

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DCP-LETT-11694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baruch Jakob Placzek
Date:
15 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 244
Summary:

Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].

A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11696

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 147
Summary:

Apologises for his error over the Solanum.

Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.

Contributor:
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FL-0484

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
17 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
20 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 439
Summary:

Writing on vegetable physiology.

Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11697

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 106
Summary:

Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11701

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 112
Summary:

Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

Contributor:
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FL-0485

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
21 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11702

From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 231
Summary:

Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.

Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".

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DCP-LETT-11703

From:
Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 194: 41
Summary:

Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11708

From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 9
Summary:

Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11705

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 106: B140–1
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.

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