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DCP-LETT-11902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Summary:

Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl August Lindvall
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (MS C. A. Lindvall)
Summary:

CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.

Encloses his photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 [Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Summary:

Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 76
Summary:

Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11905F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Kell Blyth
Date:
26 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1432, 2009)
Summary:

Details of publications by G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11904F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Nicholas Bourdet (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for sending him work on the skull.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11905

From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:

Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11907

From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 19
Summary:

A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11906

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 114
Summary:

Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11910

From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 179, 180
Summary:

Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11909

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edinburgh University
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (July 1994)
Summary:

CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11908

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
28 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525)
Summary:

Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[1 Mar 1879?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Monday?

Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11913F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 59
Summary:

Astonished at circular and will risk revolutions to invest. Describes Blidah, Algeria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11914

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 73
Summary:

Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].

Writes of his tour [in Algeria].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11913

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 172–4
Summary:

Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11915A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
4 and 6 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110)
Summary:

Encloses a letter [from Fritz Müller, see 11839] which "eminently deserves to be published in Nature". Discusses the form and illustration needed. Spelling problems to be referred to Robert McLachlan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11915B

From:
Albert Ripley Leeds
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 73
Summary:

CD elected an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11915

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11916

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
5 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.561)
Summary:

Thanks LAE for publication [Errera and G. Gevaert, Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs, 1ère partie (1878)].

Contributor:
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