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From:
Herbert Samuel Sanguinetti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 9r
Summary:

Change of address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c . 1875 – c . 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Summary:

JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.

Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Dallinger
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
Dallinger 1887, p. 191
Summary:

Has no doubt WHD’s experiments on mutation of lower organisms under changed conditions of life will be curious and valuable. The fact of their becoming accustomed to much higher temperatures than those to which they are adapted is very remarkable. It explains the existence of algae in hot springs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 32
Summary:

Suggests FD call on Carl Semper.

Inquires about Porlieria: Do the leaves shut to check evaporation? Does it appear silver under water?

Explains how he thinks the pulvinus acts; wishes FD would investigate the point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 111–12
Summary:

JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.

Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 350
Summary:

Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327)
Summary:

Will be glad to see OCM at Down. If he comes Friday, he will meet J. F. McLennan, author of Primitive marriage, a "remarkable man".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 199
Summary:

JIR’s brother writes from India in support of the protective function of plant sensitivity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 473
Summary:

CD contributes £200 to JDH’s Royal Society fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 390-391
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Gifford Palgrave
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 392
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Daniel Hack Tuke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 July 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/179
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustave-Germer Baillière
Date:
5 July 1878
Source of text:
Peter Harrington (dealer) (7 February 2012)
Summary:

Hopes Baillière will inform Cosserat how pleased he is with the new translation of Coral Reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
5 July 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3579), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
5 July [1878]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327)
Summary:

Delighted to see him on Tuesday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 310
Summary:

Reports results of crosses between the two forms of Viola tricolor: 1. Female small flower crossed with male large flower yields all small flowers (cleistogamous self-fertilisation suspected); 2. Male small flower crossed with female large yields intermediate flowers; 3. Large flower crossed with large flower yields self-sterility symptoms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 33
Summary:

Has a magnificent bush of Porlieria. There is no vestige of bloom; CD will test for sleep movements. Reports successful experiments on temperature-induced sensitivity of radicles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 57
Summary:

He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 34
Summary:

Describes sleep movements in Porlieria and his experiments on movements of radicles.

Thalia flowers have interesting mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project