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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Birkbeck Norman (George) (Birkbeck) Hill
Date:
1 July [1879]
Source of text:
G. B. Hill 1896, p. 58
Summary:

Thanks GBNH for a fact about CD’s grandfather [Erasmus Darwin], but he will not be able to use it in his brief notice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 1)
Summary:

Sends his autograph to HR for the Galerie internationale [1880].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 136
Summary:

Starlings seem to share their food. Are they communists as they struggle for their existence?

Describes movement of a caterpillar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 61
Summary:

FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 60
Summary:

Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 334
Summary:

Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.

FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 16
Summary:

CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.

Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 61
Summary:

Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 85
Summary:

Francis wants a copy of a book on "Shakespeare’s merry tales" to present to a friend in Würzburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 July 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36188)
Summary:

Sends proofs of his preface [to EK’s Erasmus Darwin], with which he is disappointed. Suggests additions and improvements he would like to make.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: B106–7
Summary:

F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 86
Summary:

Inquires concerning a possibility of searching old deeds about the Darwin family history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 102
Summary:

CD has corrected the first proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] and so returns RD’s books. CD is disappointed with his work and fears RD will be also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 61
Summary:

Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.565)
Summary:

Asks that authoress be thanked for poem. Enjoyed poetry in old days; now cannot read a line.

Delighted that ERL will find time for original investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 July [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 178–9)
Summary:

Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 200
Summary:

Points to CD’s favourable notice of his anthropological work;

details current financial difficulties and work efforts. Asks to borrow £5.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 79
Summary:

Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B31–2
Summary:

Has received printed sheets from CD. Hopes CD does not intend to delete anything. EK comments on value of his own sketch for Erasmus Darwin.

Hopes CD can excuse article he wrote in response to a review of Grant Allen’s book [The colour-sense (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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