From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 28
Summary:
Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 131–2)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds and plants.
News of Francis and Horace Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 June 1878
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:
Appointing ARW as an honorary member of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Ellor Taylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 124
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Flowers; their origin, shapes, perfumes and colours (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 June [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 133–4)
Summary:
Asks WTT-D to identify a leaf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 June [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 29–30
Summary:
Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.
Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.
Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
26 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 168: 84
Summary:
Sends a paper by Melchior Neumayr [‘Über unvermittelt auftretende Cephalopodentypen’, Jahrb. K.-K. Geol. Reichsanst. 28 (1878): 37–80].
Plans to marry soon.
Next year he will begin a practical course in geology to supplement his lectures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ellor Taylor
Date:
26 June 1878
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (tipped into J. E. Taylor 1878b (DK T243f STR))
Summary:
Thanks JET for his book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 145
Summary:
Progress of experiments. Wants CD’s advice on best way to cross-fertilise his plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 110
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wesley Judd
Date:
27 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 8
Summary:
Congratulates JWJ on marriage.
Thanks for essay by Neumayr [see 11569].
Comments on paper by Edmund Mojsisovics ["Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Anneliden", Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Math.-naturwiss. Cl. 76 (1877) Abt. 1: 7–20].
CD’s health better than a few years ago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 188
Summary:
Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
27 June 1878
Source of text:
- Joel Stenftenagel (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 199]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Lord Arthur Russell
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Correspondence, 1871–80, Mueller, F
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
28 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 105
Summary:
Discusses methods of fertilising potatoes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Dallinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 34
Summary:
The results of WHD’s long series of investigations of effects of steadily and slowly altered environment on putrefactive organisms "palpably demonstrate [CD’s] great doctrine".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June] 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 181
Summary:
Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.
Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.
[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 31
Summary:
Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.
Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project