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DCP-LETT-11302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-02832

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[John Buchanan]
Date:
1878
Source of text:
A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-02833

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[John Buchanan]
Date:
1878
Source of text:
A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11306F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
Felter 1902, p. 124
Summary:

Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.

HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11304

From:
Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-02834

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 205
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
1 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:

Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11305

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

Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 438
Summary:

Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].

Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Hyacinth Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine)
Date:
--1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11308

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 121
Summary:

Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].

Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11308A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 249: 126
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-02835

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
3 January 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11309F

From:
Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 12
Summary:

The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11309

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

Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.

Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11311

From:
William James (William) Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 106
Summary:

Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.

Would like references to works on breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11311F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007)
Summary:

Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11312

From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 162
Summary:

Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-02836

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Falkland Islands, Miscellaneous, 1841-1928, Miscellaneous reports 18.5, f. 323.This letter is written to the right of the central margin on the back of the folio, at the end of the text of a letter from W. H. Bacchus to J. G. Luehmann, 7 November 1877, transcribed below. The front of the folio is annotated at top left in an unknown hand Sent | Oct 29/69.Mr J G Luehman (sic)Dear SirYours of the 29th Ult received. I should like to get some more of the [perennial] Wheat grass as I think a good deal of it. Is not a [grain] (judging from the way it comes up) but a cereal grass which makes it more interesting My grass seed[s] saved are sown on my land in Autumn drilled together and I do not keep them. I send in separate parcel packets of a few which are left. The Baron (when do you expect he will return) promised to write to the Falkland Islands for seeds of Tussock grass Dactylis caespitosa. I should like very much to procure some. Some years ago you kindly gave me some seeds of Pringlea antiscorbutica none came up have you heard of any one having grown it - You seemed to be short of plants of Azolla rubra I can send plenty if you require anyI am always glad to [receive] seeds of new grass or fodder plants to sow for test purposes.I remain yours trulyW H BacchusPeerewur 7 Nov /77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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