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DCP-LETT-11539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 383
Summary:

Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7)
Summary:

Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.

Working hard on plant movements.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 249: 73
Summary:

Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:

Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].

Is working too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Kesteven
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 16 (EH 88206068)
Summary:

Feels WHK’s views on the origin of tumbling in pigeons are very likely correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 June [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331)
Summary:

Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11551

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

Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
15 June 1878
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 27
Summary:

Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9)
Summary:

Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.

Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11561F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
21 June [1878?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 314)
Summary:

Thanks for bananas.

Will rejoice when Joseph Dalton Hooker is no longer burdened by his Royal Society duties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 28
Summary:

Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds and plants.

News of Francis and Horace Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4)
Summary:

Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 29–30
Summary:

Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.

Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.

Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ellor Taylor
Date:
26 June 1878
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (tipped into J. E. Taylor 1878b (DK T243f STR))
Summary:

Thanks JET for his book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
27 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 8
Summary:

Congratulates JWJ on marriage.

Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].

Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].

CD’s health better than a few years ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 105
Summary:

Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.

Contributor:
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