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FVM-M78-06-10

From:
Gustave Beckx
To:
Count d’Aspremont Lynden
Date:
10 June 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise, SP, Correspondences, “Von Mueller”
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-06-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Wöhler
Date:
11 June 1878
Source of text:
Archiv-Sammlung Wachs, no. 407, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 June [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331)
Summary:

Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11552

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11551

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 June [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11553

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
15 June 1878
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:

Thanks AD-P for his magnificent Atlas; hopes it will find an English publisher. Suggests Longman & Co.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11559

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11558

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11557

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 71
Summary:

Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
18 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 128–9)
Summary:

Movements of cotyledons of Oxalis.

Francis Darwin at Würzburg with Julius Sachs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-06-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
20 June 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

DCP-LETT-11561F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
21 June [1878?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 314)
Summary:

Thanks for bananas.

Will rejoice when Joseph Dalton Hooker is no longer burdened by his Royal Society duties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11561

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 73
Summary:

Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC656

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 36, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12131F

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11562

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0815

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[23 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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