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From:
William Gifford Palgrave
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 May 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 45-46
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 116–18)
Summary:
Germination of Cactaceae; CD wants seeds. Site of action of growth-stimuli.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alexander Macmillan
Date:
19 May 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 13-14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Hemmings, Henry
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
20 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 May [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
RM should take no more trouble over the subject [Otto Zacharias’ photos; see 11510].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 35, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 [May 1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 124–5)
Summary:
Will dispatch plants for Kew tomorrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Beal
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections (W. J. Beal Papers UA.17.4 box 891 folder 1)
Summary:
Thanks for his notice of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Carruthers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 May? 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 397-398
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Fairfield Gray
Date:
21 May [1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Thanks AFG for his interesting communication. Has sent it to Nature for publication [see 11497].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer
Date:
21 May [1878]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 110)
Summary:
Hopes that the enclosure [11497] is worth printing in Nature [see Nature (30 May 1878)]. A wood-cut would add interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[21? May 1878]
Source of text:
Nature , 30 May 1878, pp. 120–1
Summary:
CD’s letter on wide distribution of freshwater plants and animals introduces a letter to him from Arthur H. Gray [see 11497].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 93
Summary:
Gynodioecism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 199–200
Summary:
Extract from Athenæum 11 May [1878], p. 606, of R. I. Lynch on germination of the provision tree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 May 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 128
Summary:
Prof. Wood-Mason has examined Otto Zacharias’ insect photographs and confirmed the genera.
RM is going to work up Fritz Müller’s observations into a paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Thomson
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:
Cannot express opinion on RT’s views on earthquakes. To do good work on that subject a man must be deeply versed in wave motions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[before 24 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 206)
Summary:
Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105A: 99–100
Summary:
Sends some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
