From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:
Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3)
Summary:
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 42
Summary:
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
6 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Stephan Loewentheil and the 19th Century Shop, Baltimore, Maryland (dealer) (1990)
Summary:
TW’s account of the Ourang is very curious. CD hopes to see the primate whenever he goes to London, but he is leaving home for three weeks.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Fisher
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 106
Summary:
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 3)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
9 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57)
Summary:
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[10 or 11 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 4a)
Summary:
Arranges for HdeV to call.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326)
Summary:
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:
12 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 21
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:
CD grateful to EH for making his works known in France.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
14 [Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 43
Summary:
Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.
Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.
Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
CD cannot say he cares greatly about his election to the Institut but he does care for the sympathy of his friends.
Will look to Smilax when he returns to Down.
Regrets the insecurity of the identification of fossil leaves.
He has heard that De Bary has cultivated Utricularia with and without aquatic animals and that the plants that have been fed flourished "in a stupendous manner".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:
Climbing plants.
Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
It would be false to pretend he cares very much about his election to the Institut.
Glad to hear GdeS plans to publish a work on the more ancient fossil plants. Hopes he will report also on the more recent Tertiary forms because the close gradation of such forms is "a fact of paramount importance for the principle of evolution".
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