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WCP5712

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
1878?
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 153]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence 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:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
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-78-01-03

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 Hadley; 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
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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-78-01-05

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

DCP-LETT-11314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11315

From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 150
Summary:

Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11316

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:

LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11317

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:

Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-01-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
8 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

JHC647

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 29, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP4341

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
10 January 1878
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (54)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3685

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Norman Lockyer
Date:
10 January 1878
Source of text:
University of Exeter, Special Collections: MS110 Norman Lockyer Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11318

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

Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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