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DCP-LETT-11665

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 180: 21
Summary:

Contraction of plant roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[19 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4v
Summary:

Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
20 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FBG for his offer [of geese for breeding experiments] but cannot undertake anything. Suggests FBG or any friend cross half-bred birds for a few generations; it would be a valuable contribution to science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11672

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:

Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
23 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Has changed his mind and would like some of FBG’s hybrids to breed from. Feels he should not lose the chance of perhaps recording the fertility of hybrids of two distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11673

From:
Richard Randolph
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 32
Summary:

Sends pamphlet.

Thanks CD for his reply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11674F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Vignes
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
La France , 1 May 1882
Summary:

Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11675

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 144–5)
Summary:

Heliotropic responses in aerial roots and tendrils.

Sends seeds received from Fritz Müller.

Has been reading WTT-D’s lecture ["Plant-distribution as a field for geographical research", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 412–45].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date:
26 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Gallery of History (dealers) (15 January 1997)
Summary:

Sends address of Fritz Müller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11677

From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
Summary:

Thanks him for ["Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bestäubungstheorie", in Program der Königlichen Gewerbeschule zu Elberfeld, 1877/78 (1879)]. Agrees with appreciation of Carl Sprengel’s work. Rejoices how highly GWJB appreciates Hermann Müller.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11679

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 77
Summary:

Thanks for comments on his lecture ["Nervous system of Medusa"]

and for information [about J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11681

From:
Marinko Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 1
Summary:

His son, the Serbian translator of the Origin, has died.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 146–7)
Summary:

Heliotropism in roots.

Francis Darwin’s work on "bloom" and its relation to stomata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 148–9)
Summary:

Movements of flower-stalks of Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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