From:
Robert Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 118
Summary:
On earthquakes, and the generation of massive sea-waves that accompany them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 127
Summary:
Will exhibit the photos at the Entomological Society and have them identified.
Fritz Müller’s observations on relative abundance of mimicking and mimicked species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 91
Summary:
Sends Ledum, the nectar of which catches many insects.
Describes his Primula varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Fairfield Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 May 1878, p. 121
Summary:
Found a live mussel attached to a blue-winged teal’s foot. Had the bird not been shot, the mussel might have been transported miles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 66
Summary:
Recounts some figures relating deaf-mutism and consanguineous marriages.
GHD has failed to be elected to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 305
Summary:
Scheme for Jemmy Button’s grandson has fallen through, as he has already been "adopted".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 93
Summary:
Gynodioecism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 144
Summary:
Request an autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project