From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Leo Errera
Date:
27 January 1878
Source of text:
MM/21/54, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
Summary:
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 163: 37
Summary:
Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.
Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 30, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Evans
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities (JE/B/1/17)
Summary:
Happy to subscribe to A. H. Everett’s expedition to the caves of Borneo.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Bradley Thayer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 88
Summary:
Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:
His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31?] Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 102
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings and respects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
31 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:
Has sent GdeS’s drawing to Hooker. He, Oliver, and Thiselton-Dyer have been perplexed by it.
L. Lesquereux’s discoveries in the Cincinnati Lower Silurian beds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 106–7)
Summary:
Thanks for WTT-D’s help.
Burying action of seeds.
"Bloom" on ferns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
?-2-1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.145-146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:
The amphicarpic habit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 67
Summary:
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9)
Summary:
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105: B103
Summary:
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
4 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Conry 1972, p. 118
Summary:
The Permian fossil sent by GdeS has stirred up the Kew botanists. Hooker suggests it was a Ceratopteris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project