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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[July 1879?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1263
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
July 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
July 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[1 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 123
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Birkbeck Norman (George) (Birkbeck) Hill
Date:
1 July [1879]
Source of text:
G. B. Hill 1896, p. 58
Summary:
Thanks GBNH for a fact about CD’s grandfather [Erasmus Darwin], but he will not be able to use it in his brief notice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Bonamy Price
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 21-23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 1)
Summary:
Sends his autograph to HR for the Galerie internationale [1880].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 136
Summary:
Starlings seem to share their food. Are they communists as they struggle for their existence?
Describes movement of a caterpillar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 61
Summary:
FD’s experiment shows that caustic does not interfere with the bending of radicles. Believes that the apex is a kind of brain for certain movements, being specialised to receive certain irritations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 60
Summary:
Stresses importance of ensuring that cauterisation of radicles does not, through injury, prevent movement. Plans an experiment to test for "apheliotropism" in certain radicles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
2 July 1879
Source of text:
Liverpool University Library: TMR1.W.2.2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
2 July 1879
Source of text:
Senate House Library, University of London: MS 791/138
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 334
Summary:
Heliotropism nomenclature. Apheliotropic mustard roots grow more quickly in dark. Measures growth with microscope as S. H. Vines did in mould. Studying air roots.
FD’s and Stahl’s negative opinion of Sachs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 16
Summary:
CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.
Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 July [1879?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 65–6)
Summary:
Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 61
Summary:
Describes bean experiments. Will tell Emma Darwin to tell Elizabeth Darwin that he has written to the Riffel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 July 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 236-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
William Lewery Blackley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 July 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 24-25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 85
Summary:
Francis wants a copy of a book on "Shakespeare’s merry tales" to present to a friend in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
7 July 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36188)
Summary:
Sends proofs of his preface [to EK’s Erasmus Darwin], with which he is disappointed. Suggests additions and improvements he would like to make.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project