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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin [1878?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [1878?] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302 |
To Francis Darwin 5 [June 1878]
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 |
To Raphael Meldola 3 January 1878
Summary
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11309 |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
To Karl von Scherzer? 4 January 1878
Summary
Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 4 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (11 October 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11311F |
To W. W. Baxter 6 January [1878]
Summary
Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 6 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Parke-Bernet (dealers) (6 February 1962) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11314 |
To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878]
Summary
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 11 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11318 |
To Fritz Müller 12 January 1878
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].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 12 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11319 |
To Adolf Ernst 16 January 1878
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Ernst |
Date: | 16 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11321 |
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Darwin, Francis | (28) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (23) |
Meldola, Raphael | (17) |
Romanes, G. J. | (17) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |