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DCP-LETT-12214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Will do nothing with the geese until he hears from FBG. Is glad FBG intends to publish his results.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49 [A 9903])
Summary:

Invites EH to spend night at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
2 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (catalogue LN7755, 11 December 1997)
Summary:

Until C-FR sees the whole of Erasmus Darwin, he cannot decide if it is worth translating into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1385

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.179, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC415

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.60, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding Térme[?] repeatedly objecting to the appointment of George Samuel Jenman, previously as Superintendent of the Jamaica Botanic Garden [Castleton] & now to a post with the Museum at Demerara [British Guiana, now Guyana]. JDH recommended [Sir Anthony] Musgrave send Jenman to Venezuela for chocolate. JDH will respond to a letter from Campbell. JDH discusses the deterioration of the wood work in the hot houses at RBG Kew, including the Orchid House, Victoria[?] House & Tropical Fern House, & suggests ventilation & using hard wood would prolong its life from the 6 years predicted by John Smith. He mentions using brown paper to patch up Palm House holes. Mentions £2000 should do more in [Economic Botany] Museum Number 1 than pay for a staircase. JDH adds in a post script that they have been to Stirling & Callander.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001032

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
2 September 1879
Source of text:
MM/16/57, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-12213

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 23
Summary:

Force of turgor is true cause of movement in plants. HdeV hopes to identify the substance which increases the cell’s water-absorbing power.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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