From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 114–17
Summary:
Last minute checking of some quotations has delayed his translation [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Richard (Dick) Atkin, Baron Atkin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 122
Summary:
Thanks for present and letter.
Wishes a good trip to the lakes and sends love to family members.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Liversidge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 230: 77
Summary:
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
the Freies Deutsches Hochstift
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 August 1879
Source of text:
Freies Deutsches Hochstift Frankfurter Goethemuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 22
Summary:
Experiments to determine mechanism of tendril curvature; importance of variations in cell turgidity. Contraction in roots caused by increased turgor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ball
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 35
Summary:
Hopes CD will read and comment on his lecture ["Origin of flora of the Alps", Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1879)]. Disgrees with CD; JB maintains that the high antiquity of existing plant genera and families explains wide differences in their distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 134
Summary:
His experiments on nutrition of Utricularia are not sufficiently exact or complete to allow them to be published. He will resume experimentation and report to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
10 August 1879
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 334-335]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Osmond Fisher
Date:
10 August 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 66
Summary:
Crossbreeding experiments with geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
11 August 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418332
Summary:
Asks how many species of Lepidoptera are peculiar to the British Isles.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 38-39
- Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [pp. 335-336]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 94
Summary:
Coniston is most beautiful, but CD finds "there are too many human beings for my taste".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Osmond Fisher
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 40-41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.176, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 August 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418342
Summary:
Wonders if there are any Lepidoptera species that are unique to the British Isles, referring to Otto Staudinger's catalogue of European Lepidoptera [Catalog der Lepidopteren Europa's und der angrenzenden Länder, 1861; Catalog der Lepidopteren des europäischen Faunengebiets, 1871].
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
12 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 6)
Summary:
Thanks for letter.
Comments on growth and movement of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Richard Alston
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 August 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 42-43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
13 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:
Reports the results of breeding from FBG’s hybrid geese. The hybrids are fertile inter se. Would FBG like the geese back? If CD publishes his observations may he use FBG’s results?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Aug 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36191)
Summary:
CD regrets that he feels large parts of Krause’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin] must be omitted. Gives his criticisms and his plan for condensed publication of his own article, with only parts of EK’s. If EK is unwilling to change, CD will publish his article privately. It is manifest that EK can publish his essay in its extended form in Germany if he wishes to do so.
Contributor:
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