From:
William Kitchen Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 174: 20
Summary:
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Dalziel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 35
Summary:
A "dog fancier" and newspaper critic of dog shows, HD seeks CD’s opinion on the origin, cause, and use of "dew claws".
Contributor:
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From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 105
Summary:
Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 101
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[24 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 104
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
25 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 269
Summary:
Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 125
Summary:
Returns Kosmos.
Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.
Contributor:
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From:
William Edward Hart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 109
Summary:
Offers observations on pollination.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
Summary:
Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].
Contributor:
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From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 163: 37
Summary:
Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.
Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].
Contributor:
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From:
James Bradley Thayer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 88
Summary:
Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 133.19: 10, 11, DAR 178: 102, DAR 209.4: 433–4, DAR 209.11: 258, 259, DAR 209.12: 88, Petit and Théodoridès 1959, pp. 210–11
Summary:
Information on Cyclamen and other plants.
Identification of some plants.
"Bloom".
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:
His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31?] Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 102
Summary:
Sends birthday greetings and respects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[February 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 817
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 91
Summary:
The amphicarpic habit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 67
Summary:
CD at first thought GHD should not answer Haughton [see 10689], but Hooker thinks if no correction is made Haughton’s error will be quoted for 20 years. CD is now inclined to agree.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 105: B103
Summary:
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 4 February 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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