From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 21
Summary:
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Acland; Ellen Harrison
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 108
Summary:
On an elephant’s crying when foot was operated on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–80]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 254
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[January 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 105
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1878–9?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 830
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
1 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 438
Summary:
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 121
Summary:
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Anne Hadley; Elizabeth Anne Greaves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 12
Summary:
The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William James (William) Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 164: 106
Summary:
Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.
Would like references to works on breeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 162
Summary:
Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 150
Summary:
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:
Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.
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
Text Online
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
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
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
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