From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 12 July] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B7–10
Summary:
Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 62
Summary:
Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.
Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.
Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 87; unknown
Summary:
CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.
Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 93
Summary:
Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 73
Summary:
Thanks CD for comments on Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Describes work on Medusae.
Describes work on Challenger Radiolaria and publication plans.
Contributor:
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