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DCP-LETT-12077

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11638

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 152
Summary:

Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.

Sleeping plants.

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DCP-LETT-11639

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11632

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 57
Summary:

Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11647

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 314
Summary:

Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.

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DCP-LETT-11640A

From:
Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 63
Summary:

CD elected corresponding member in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences, Paris. [See 11653.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11641

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 86: B19–20
Summary:

Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.

On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.

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DCP-LETT-11642

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:

CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.

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DCP-LETT-11645

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11648

From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 36
Summary:

Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11646

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11650

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 24
Summary:

Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11653

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11653A

From:
Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4r
Summary:

The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11656

From:
John Francis Fisher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 121
Summary:

Discourses on the rights of animals.

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DCP-LETT-11658

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?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11657

From:
William James Lloyd Wharton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 69: A76–7
Summary:

Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.

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DCP-LETT-11661A

From:
Kasimir Ledeganck; Jean Crocq
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 65
Summary:

CD made an honorary member of the Royal Society for Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11477

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 215
Summary:

Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.

Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 44
Summary:

Instructions to sow some seeds

and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.

Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.

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