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
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
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
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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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
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:
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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:
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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
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:
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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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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
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:
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