From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:
Invites CD to Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 172: 66
Summary:
He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.
Contributor:
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From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 105
Summary:
Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Dalziel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 35
Summary:
A "dog fancier" and newspaper critic of dog shows, HD seeks CD’s opinion on the origin, cause, and use of "dew claws".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
25 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 269
Summary:
Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 125
Summary:
Returns Kosmos.
Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.
Contributor:
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From:
William Edward Hart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 109
Summary:
Offers observations on pollination.
Contributor:
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From:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 136
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Sends Greek translation of CD’s "Sketch of an infant".
Is working for Greek acceptance of Darwinism.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
Summary:
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
Contributor:
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From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 163: 37
Summary:
Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.
Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].
Contributor:
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From:
James Bradley Thayer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 88
Summary:
Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].
Contributor:
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From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31?] Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 102
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings and respects.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 67
Summary:
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105: B103
Summary:
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 71
Summary:
Sends birthday wishes.
Discusses his work on the Challenger [expedition] Radiolaria.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Adolf (Martin) Beckhard
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 73
Summary:
Thanks him for works by Lazarus Geiger [probably Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit (1871)
and Der Ursprung der Sprache, 2d ed. (1878)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
10 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 280
Summary:
Thanks JP for congratulations on LL.D. [awarded by Cambridge University].
Comments on Rudolf Virchow’s book [Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat (1877)].
Contributor:
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From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 103
Summary:
Thanks for photograph.
Sends birthday greetings.
Regrets CD has not lately published in Kosmos.
Requests photograph of CD’s family.
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 202
Summary:
Congratulates CD on his birthday.
WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
Summary:
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
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