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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 107
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 111
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[early June 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 175
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 383
Summary:
Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 109
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 249: 73
Summary:
Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Kesteven
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 16 (EH 88206068)
Summary:
Feels WHK’s views on the origin of tumbling in pigeons are very likely correct.
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From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 227
Summary:
Pleased with CD’s praise of his work. He agrees with CD that intermediate marine fossils are rare in the same bed. The difficulty is overcome by extensive search of "isotopic" fauna in different beds of the same "isotopic" region.
Contributor:
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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 198
Summary:
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 349
Summary:
Sends article on "Evolution" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.]. CD will be interested in Lamarck’s opinions in 1794.
Is working on crayfish and their distribution.
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From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 198
Summary:
Report of an "eight legged horse" considered to be an example of reversion.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 109–10
Summary:
JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.
Contributor:
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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 197
Summary:
Comments on publication of his Atlas der Botanik [1878]. Discusses possible English edition. Draws CD’s attention to plates of Drosera in Atlas. Mentions contribution offered by Hermann Müller, and support by German professors of botany.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 129
Summary:
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 27
Summary:
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
Contributor:
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From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 198
Summary:
Comments on positive response to publication [of Atlas]. CD’s approval will help make an English edition possible. Rejects suggestion that CD should subscribe.
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 51
Summary:
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 116
Summary:
Seeks CD’s support for W. C. M’Intosh, candidate for Chair in Natural History at Aberdeen.
Contributor:
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