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DCP-LETT-11087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
1 Aug 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
1 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.

Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].

Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.

Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus

and his own experiments on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
10 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.519)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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