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From:
Litchfield nee Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin nee Farrer, I.
Date:
4 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1635
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
4 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 245: 317
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 169
Summary:
Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 February 1878
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 136
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Sends Greek translation of CD’s "Sketch of an infant".
Is working for Greek acceptance of Darwinism.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 71
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses his work on the Challenger [expedition] Radiolaria.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Adolf (Martin) Beckhard
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 73
Summary:
Thanks him for works by Lazarus Geiger [probably Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit (1871)
and Der Ursprung der Sprache, 2d ed. (1878)].
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From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 103
Summary:
Thanks for photograph.
Sends birthday greetings.
Regrets CD has not lately published in Kosmos.
Requests photograph of CD’s family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 280
Summary:
Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].
Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
Date:
[before 12 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 79
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.
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From:
Cookson, B. A.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12 February [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1919
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 202
Summary:
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 119
Summary:
Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
Summary:
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Contributor:
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From:
James Lennox Houston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 273
Summary:
Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 95: 467
Summary:
Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.
Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 120
Summary:
Apologises for taking liberty of request made in previous letter.
Tells CD ways in which large box of wheat specimens might be shipped from St Petersburg.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 35
Summary:
Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.
Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.
Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 29
Summary:
TMR believes rate of limestone formation is same now as in past.
He expects his address [of 10 Oct 1876] on geological time [Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35], which contradicts William Thomson’s view of the earth’s age, to appear soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Richard Randolph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 and 20 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 31
Summary:
A Quaker essayist and poet who seeks to reconcile science and religion sends some samples of his work.
Contributor:
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- Dobson, G. E.1
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- Druitt, Thomas1
- Du Bois-Reymond, Emil1
- Dumas, Jean-Baptiste2
- Evans, John (b)1
- Farn, A. B.1
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- Figuerola Ballester, Laureano1
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