From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
MM/16/50, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 411
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 415
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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
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From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 412
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 22, January 2018, item 20)
Summary:
Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
Nature , 5 March 1891, p. 415
Summary:
Doubts that "the same well-characterized species should be produced in two distinct countries, or at two distinct times".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 Sept 1878
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 170–171)
Summary:
Neither he nor [Francis Darwin] intends publishing on inheritance.
They are working on physiology of plants [Movement in plants], but will not print for a year.
Thinks JVC’s new journal [Zoologische Anzeiger] will be of great use to students of zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 416-417
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Arthur Russell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 413-414
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 40, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project