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
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[2 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 171
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 172
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 173
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 34, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
10 May 1878
Source of text:
Herbarium Department, letters received, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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
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:
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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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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