To ? 2 January 1878
Summary
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308A |
To Nature [21? May 1878]
Summary
CD’s letter on wide distribution of freshwater plants and animals introduces a letter to him from Arthur H. Gray [see 11497].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [21? May 1878] |
Classmark: | Nature, 30 May 1878, pp. 120–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11520 |
To ? 13 August 1878
Summary
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11655 |
To ? 28 September 1878
Summary
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.549) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11711 |
From W. K. Parker 18 January 1878
Summary
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Author: | William Kitchen Parker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10077 |
From W. C. Marshall 25 September [1878]
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10173 |
From F. M. Balfour [c. 31 January 1878?]
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.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 31 Jan 1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10332 |
To Milan Radovanović [before 12 February 1878]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on his coming birthday. Has nothing special to say as a preface to S[erbian] edition [of Origin (1878)], except to hope it is in every way successful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović |
Date: | [before 12 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10827 |
From R. T. Clarke 6 February [1878]
Summary
Sends curious, coloured pea seeds.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10832 |
To G. J. Romanes 15 April [1878]
Summary
Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 15 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10929 |
From Thomas Meehan 28 April [1878]
Summary
Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.
Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10944 |
To W. C. Marshall 27 September [1878]
Summary
Thanks WCM for plant.
Mentions "your new room" at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 27 Sept [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11153 |
From George Henslow [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11219 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 432 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11220 |
To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Summary
Forwards an unspecified work for FD to read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
To Francis Darwin 5 [June 1878]
Summary
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 5 [June 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11303 |
To Raphael Meldola 1 January [1878]
Summary
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11305 |
To Édouard Heckel 1 January 1878
Summary
Pleased EH is translating Forms of flowers. Agrees "cowslip" and "oxlip" ought to be translated by their scientific names.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel |
Date: | 1 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (13 and 14 December 2011, lot 37038) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306 |
To H. D. Garrison [1878]
Summary
Regrets he was not at home when HDG called.
HDG’s observations on the evolution of the human ear are well worth consideration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herod Dailey Garrison |
Date: | [1878] |
Classmark: | Felter 1902, p. 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11306F |
To Hermann Müller 1 January [1878]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 438 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11307 |
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Darwin, Francis | (19) |
Torbitt, James | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Meldola, Raphael | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (562) |
Darwin, Francis | (47) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (30) |
Meldola, Raphael | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |