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DCP-LETT-11524

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

DCP-LETT-11525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Thomson
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Cannot express opinion on RT’s views on earthquakes. To do good work on that subject a man must be deeply versed in wave motions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11523F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[before 24 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206)
Summary:

Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11526

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
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DCP-LETT-11528

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

DCP-LETT-11529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
25 May 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11531

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
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DCP-LETT-11532

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

DCP-LETT-11530

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

JHC1733

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 137
Summary:

Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wallis Nash
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11535

From:
Edward William Fithian
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101
Summary:

Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11537

From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 145
Summary:

Thank CD for autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Fithian
Date:
[31 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101v
Summary:

Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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