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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:

Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herod Dailey Garrison
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
Felter 1902, p. 124
Summary:

Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.

HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:

On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1878 – Nov 1880]
Source of text:
R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 39)
Summary:

Can the correspondent get some pamphlets written by [K. G. W. Stenzel?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
1 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038)
Summary:

Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.

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

Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 438
Summary:

Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].

Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 121
Summary:

Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].

Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.

Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 12
Summary:

The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.

Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William James (William) Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 106
Summary:

Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.

Would like references to works on breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007)
Summary:

Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 162
Summary:

Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
6 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962)
Summary:

Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 150
Summary:

Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:

LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:

Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.

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

Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project