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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 January 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 206
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 Jan 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44)
Summary:

CD and son [Francis] working on spontaneous movements of plants and heliotropism.

Has given [Raphael Meldola] permission to read extracts of FM’s last letter [not found], on odours emitted by moths, before Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1878): ii–iii].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Lewis Sturtevant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 269
Summary:

Encloses some notes on maize that may be useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Edward Ramsay
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 January 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M126, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Ernst
Date:
16 Jan 1878
Source of text:
State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971)
Summary:

Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eugenio María (Eugenio) Montero Ríos; Jacinto Mesía
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 58
Summary:

CD elected an honorary professor of the Institucion Libre de Enseñanza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 466
Summary:

In London and wishes to meet JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eugenia Parlatore
Date:
18 January 1878
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Parlatore/Ricordo 1877
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:

Invites CD to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 172: 66
Summary:

He has obtained further evidence that rats gnaw through lead pipes for water. CD’s opinion that they hear trickling confirms his view that they possess reason.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kitchen Parker
Date:
20 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
Te Papa Archives, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CA000372/001/0001)
Summary:

Thanks for kind note, would like to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[20 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484)
Summary:

CD will call on Tuesday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 and 22 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].

Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.

Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.

Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?

Observations on heliotropism.

Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
22 January 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:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
23 January 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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