From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
2 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 281
Summary:
On his discovery of ova of Flustra.
"Pray do not call me Dr Darwin."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Potonié
Date:
20 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 249a
Summary:
Thanks for information [about early evolutionary views of Alexander Braun].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
24 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 364
Summary:
Sends specimens of Russian wheat variety kubanka, which after sowing for two years degenerates into a different variety, saxonka. Suggests that ASW conduct experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
29 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 365
Summary:
Thanks for specimen.
Always was sceptical of James Buckman’s experiment; heard afterwards that cruel trick was played on him.
Glad ASW is willing to look into Russian wheat case.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
9 May [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 68
Summary:
CD believes few or none have attributed deaf-mutism to consanguineous marriages.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 23
Summary:
Julius von Sachs will "swear & curse" when he finds out he has missed sensitiveness of root apex. Has been putting his notes together and the case is conclusive. [Dated "Saturday 10th" by CD.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:
Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 356
Summary:
Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 137
Summary:
Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Fithian
Date:
[31 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101v
Summary:
Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].
Contributor:
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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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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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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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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:
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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:
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 31
Summary:
Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.
Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.
Contributor:
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