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From:
George Day
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
October 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M114, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 176
Summary:
Encloses a cheque for £11.19.9. Will transmit £7.9.4 to Fritz Müller. Thanks for account of the sale of his books, which appears to be in a "lamentable state".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-10-1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.46, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Sir WilliamTurner Thiselton-Dyer about John Reader Jackson [Keeper of the RBG Kew museums] attending the Paris Exhibition [Third Paris World's Fair]. JDH would also like to take Jackson to the Jardin des Plantes. JDH has attended a deputation from the Colonies to the Prince [Princes of Wales, later Edvard VII] offering him the colonial collections from the exhibition to establish a colonial museum. These collections will be stored in the South Kensington galleries [Victoria and Alber Museum] temporarily which means that RBG Kew will not get the Douglas fir but they wil get a Xanthorrhoea, a tree fern stem probably of Alsophilia cooperi & some other unspecified things. JDH has seen Brand's[?] collection of woods but was not impressed by the display. JDH visits the exhibition daily& is also often at the Embassy with the Prince, who sympathises with keeping RBG Kew shut [to the public during the mornings] but suggests a compromise. JDH still needs to see the horticulture diaplays at the exhbition. Also, to meet with M. Pierre about publishing Pierre's collections with government assistance, about which Joseph Decaisne is sceptical. The balls or 'fetes' at Versailles & the Ministries have been badly organised, JDH [& his wife Hyacinth Hooker] spend the evenings with the Regnals[?], relations of Hyacinth's & the Symonds family. They have been to the Hippodrome. They will catch the Boulogne train home. JDH is returning the proofs of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE to Reeve, the publishers. William Munro is leaving for Dieppe having been disappointed with the grasses at the Jardin des Plantes. JDH reports some gossip about John Forbes Watson leaving the India Office.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
October 1878
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 WALLACE A. RUSSEL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:
Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 115–17
Summary:
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
4 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of Strasburger’s essay on ‘swarmspores’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George John Douglas Campbell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 October 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 421-424
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 140
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:
Thanks for pt 4 of Australian orchids [1874–].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 118–20
Summary:
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Lister
Date:
7 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Godlee 1917, p. 387
Summary:
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 108
Summary:
Forms of flowers, translated by Édouard Heckel, is published.
Cross and self-fertilisation has only sold 450–500 copies.
Origin sells regularly; he looks forward to a cheaper edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 148
Summary:
Forwards letter from Victor Kennedy reporting on the growth of JT’s potatoes in W. Ireland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Sara
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
9 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 28
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters