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DCP-LETT-11503

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 154
Summary:

WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11505

From:
Charles Baron Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 160
Summary:

Reports curious case of dimorphism in Rubiaceae. Encloses envelope containing bud samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:

Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11509

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 21
Summary:

Believes that weakness of hybrids explains Biblical injunctions against improper unions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11513

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 101–3
Summary:

Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s work to 29 April 1878 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11514

From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 92
Summary:

Gynodioecism in Ranunculus acris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11522

From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 93
Summary:

Gynodioecism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11523

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 199–200
Summary:

Extract from Athenæum 11 May [1878], p. 606, of R. I. Lynch on germination of the provision tree.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11524

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 128
Summary:

Prof. Wood-Mason has examined Otto Zacharias’ insect photographs and confirmed the genera.

RM is going to work up Fritz Müller’s observations into a paper.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11526

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105A: 99–100
Summary:

Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11528

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 170
Summary:

Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11531

From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 144
Summary:

Request an autograph.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11532

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 304
Summary:

Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11530

From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 94
Summary:

Has found a few examples of Ranunculus repens with stamens reduced as in R. acris.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11535

From:
Edward William Fithian
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101
Summary:

Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11537

From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 145
Summary:

Thank CD for autograph.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11544

From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 227
Summary:

Pleased with CD’s praise of his work. He agrees with CD that intermediate marine fossils are rare in the same bed. The difficulty is overcome by extensive search of "isotopic" fauna in different beds of the same "isotopic" region.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11546

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 349
Summary:

Sends article on "Evolution" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.]. CD will be interested in Lamarck’s opinions in 1794.

Is working on crayfish and their distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11548

From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 198
Summary:

Report of an "eight legged horse" considered to be an example of reversion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11547

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 109–10
Summary:

JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.

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