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DCP-LETT-11745

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Arthur Gaskell
Date:
15 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 327
Summary:

CD hopes GAG is right [see 11744]. His second law seems largely acted on in civilised societies. Evil that would follow from checking benevolence to weak and diseased would be greater than by allowing them to survive and procreate. CD doubts that artificial checks would be advantageous to the world at large. If birth could be prevented, and control were not thought immoral, "would there not be a danger of profligacy amongst unmarried women?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-11-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bowen
Date:
17 November 1878
Source of text:
M78/57, unit 31, VPRS 1096, VA 466 Governor's inward correspondence, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-11-17a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Pitt
Date:
17 November 1878
Source of text:
M78/57, unit 31, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11746

From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 221
Summary:

Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11747

From:
Albert Brydges Farn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 26
Summary:

Discusses colour variations in the geometer moth, Gnophos obscurata. Concludes that the increasing proportion of the darker form is related to the effect of smoke that is blackening the chalk slopes on which they live.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11748F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
19 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Northwestern University Libraries, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections (Harriet Gilliam papers, box 18, folder 13)
Summary:

Glad to join Association of Liberal Thinkers and to pay usual subscription. Refuses any office and does not allow his name to be used to promote the association because neither his health nor his mental habits will allow him to take an active part.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Invites RM to luncheon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11749

From:
Thomas Herbert Noyes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 28
Summary:

THN, a medium with a gift to cure occult diseases, outlines a course of treatment to remedy CD’s ailments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11752

From:
George Arthur Gaskell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 13
Summary:

Thanks CD for his encouraging letter. Replies to CD’s points. Thinks more attention should be given to the origin and growth of sexual shame.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kitchen Parker
Date:
20 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2)
Summary:

Invites [WKP] to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11750

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 [Nov 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552)
Summary:

CD will visit tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[21 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 47
Summary:

Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11753

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 207–8)
Summary:

CD hopes his book [Movement in plants] will be worth the effort WTT-D has put into getting plants for him; fears he has achieved little.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11754F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 42
Summary:

Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 48
Summary:

Suggests experiment to detect salts deposited on surface of leaves.

Wants FD to have another go at horse-chestnut radicles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11755A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
22 Nov [1878]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (Frankland Collection 2179)
Summary:

Asks whether he may call to discuss a chemico-physiological point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1241

From:
Hooker, J. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 November 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1909
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11755F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 43
Summary:

Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2384

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 November 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 429-430
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11761

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 256
Summary:

Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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