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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[before August 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 884
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug – 15 Sept 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 159: A100
Summary:
Statement of U. S. sales of CD’s works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 135
Summary:
Sends paper on Greek plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Henry Sayce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 47
Summary:
Thanks CD for permission to quote his comments; mentions some of his conclusions with regard to the early speech of children.
Thanks for [newspaper] account of American Philological Association meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 203
Summary:
Praises unbroken series of CD’s and Francis [Darwin]’s botanical works.
Confirms FD’s Dipsacus observations. Problem of interpreting microscopic filaments as protoplasm or as inorganic and osmotic artifacts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
8 Aug 1877
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (2003); DAR 143: 267
Summary:
Asks permission to publish comments by FJC regarding paper by Francis Darwin [see 11073].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 356
Summary:
Comments on JC’s paper ["On the tidal retardation argument for the age of the earth", Rep. BAAS (1876): 88–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 August 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 97
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Heinrich Hermann (Theodor) von Heldreich
Date:
9 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 145: 9
Summary:
Obliged for essay on plants of Greece.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10?] Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 204
Summary:
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 100
Summary:
Information on plants requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Veitch & Sons
Date:
[before 11 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 96
Summary:
Asks specific questions on looking after plants of Dionaea. [The correspondent’s replies to the questions are written beneath them.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Evans Willson Black
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 190
Summary:
Encloses specimens of milk-weed with trapped insects. Indian hemp catches insects in the same way but with less success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 22
Summary:
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 490
Summary:
Electrotypes of woodcuts [of Forms of flowers] are ready for Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Murray has printed 1250 copies, instead of 1000 as planned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 139
Summary:
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 173: 9
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Aug 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 85
Summary:
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 101
Summary:
CD’s curious observations on Trifolium resupinatum.
Describes a Maranta remarkable for its leaf asymmetry: its leaves are elliptical on one side and oblong on the other.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 82
Summary:
Counted 40 worm-holes after rain; four or five in the wall.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
