From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mrs Susan Emma Smith
Date:
17 June 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/23/2 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 138
Summary:
Discusses Fritz Müller’s paper on the mutual protection of certain mimics ["Ituna and Thyridita", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1879): xx–xxviii]. [Thyridia!?]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 176–7)
Summary:
Thanks for plants
and case of sleeping Crotalaria.
"Bloom" for the present has "gone to the dogs".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 [June 1879]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Shares RM’s misgivings about Fritz Müller’s mutually protecting mimics. Would expect bird’s response to distasteful caterpillars to be instinctive. Believes J. J. Weir or Thomas Belt may have investigated the point.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Strutt, J. W.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[19 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1910
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Date:
21 June 1879
Source of text:
On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of Theorie der Gärung.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Bonamy Price
Date:
21 June 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/55/1
Summary:
Draft on ?Free Trade and ?Reciprocity.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
22 June 1879
Source of text:
Liverpool University Library: TMR1.W.2.1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Eustach Woloszczak
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 June 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
24 June [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36235)
Summary:
Thinks there is no particular interest in the abnormality in question.
Also CD has looked at several flowers and believes WDC may be mistaken in believing there is a rudimentary anther cell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 14
Summary:
Movement in plants: Philodendron and Dendrobium.
Will go to London on Thursday to receive Baly Medal. Laura Forster has offered them her house in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 77
Summary:
Sends results of his researches on the Darwin family at the Record Office.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 24 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 57
Summary:
Movement of radicles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 56
Summary:
Suggests experiments to test the response of radicles to light. Considers an alternative term for heliotropism.
Will be curious to have FD’s spiral theory about circumnutation explained to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 84
Summary:
Comments in jocular vein on GHD’s "Darwin discoveries" about their ancestors.
Emma says CD needs a change and rest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laura Mary Forster
Date:
25 June 1879
Source of text:
King’s College Library, Cambridge (tipped into N.20.1)
Summary:
Thanks her for loan of her house [Abinger Hammer].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 55
Summary:
Discusses results of geotropism experiment. Has started some heliotropic caustic experiments on mustard roots. Has trouble making marks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 184–5
Summary:
Has tried in vain to find out about the influence of Erasmus Darwin on the administration of stimulants in fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[26 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 58
Summary:
Believes that the response of root tips to being "blinded" with foil is much more interesting than response to cauterisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 June 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 26-27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project