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DCP-LETT-11492

From:
Robert Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 118
Summary:

On earthquakes, and the generation of massive sea-waves that accompany them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11493

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 127
Summary:

Will exhibit the photos at the Entomological Society and have them identified.

Fritz Müller’s observations on relative abundance of mimicking and mimicked species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11494

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 91
Summary:

Sends Ledum, the nectar of which catches many insects.

Describes his Primula varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/29)
Summary:

Has received Ledum with its captured flies.

"At present I care for nothing in this wide world except the biology of seedling plants."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/30)
Summary:

Doubts Ledum warrants investigation. Glands probably serve only to protect the flowers against crawling insects, which would not cross-fertilise them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11497

From:
Arthur Fairfield Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1878]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 May 1878, p. 121
Summary:

Found a live mussel attached to a blue-winged teal’s foot. Had the bird not been shot, the mussel might have been transported miles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11498

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 66
Summary:

Recounts some figures relating deaf-mutism and consanguineous marriages.

GHD has failed to be elected to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11500

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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DCP-LETT-11499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 May [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 119–21)
Summary:

CD wants some plants; asks Lynch to raise some Cactaceae for him. Observations on sensitivity and movements of radicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11501

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 305
Summary:

Scheme for Jemmy Button’s grandson has fallen through, as he has already been "adopted".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 [May 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11503

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 154
Summary:

WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11505

From:
Charles Baron Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 160
Summary:

Reports curious case of dimorphism in Rubiaceae. Encloses envelope containing bud samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11504F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 47
Summary:

Thanks for sending Nature; plans to leave on 22 May; anecdote about Bernard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11538

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11507

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 May [1878]
Source of text:
Christ Church Library, Oxford (MS 516)
Summary:

Blood-red onions enclosed.

GJR to come whenever convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11509

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 21
Summary:

Believes that weakness of hybrids explains Biblical injunctions against improper unions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3)
Summary:

Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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