To G. J. Romanes 11 [May 1878]
Summary
Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 11 [May 1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11502 |
From Arthur Nicols 18 January 1878
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.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11324 |
From Francis Darwin to Clarke Hawkshaw [before 18 April 1878]
Summary
FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).
Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw |
| Date: | [before 18 Apr 1878] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11711F |
To Francis Darwin 18 June [1878]
Summary
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11559 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 June [1878] . The enclosure has not been found. Francis had been working with CD on various experiments on movement in plants and was now visiting Julius Sachs’s laboratory at Würzburg from 3 June until 8 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [11 …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 July [1878]
Summary
Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11616 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11). Emma Darwin and CD were on holiday visiting family from 7 to 22 August 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). In Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 99, CD had noted that the tendrils of Bignonia capreolata (crossvine) avoided light. He later replaced the term ‘negative heliotropism’ with ‘apheliotropism’, which had been coined by Henry Jackson in 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 …
To Francis Darwin 17 July [1878]
Summary
Discusses sleep movements of Porlieria.
Has read an abstract of Julius Wiesner on heliotropism and geotropism ["Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche", Anz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien 15 (1878): 137–40] which seems important but is puzzling.
Gives details of his observations on climbing plants with reference to comments by Julius Sachs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11615 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18, letter from Federico Delpino, 28 February 1870 ; Delpino 1870 ). Delpino discussed Thalia dealbata (powdery alligator-flag) in Delpino 1870 , pp. 135–7. For CD’s observations on the sensitivity of the pistil in T. dealbata , see the letter to Francis Darwin , 7 [July 1878] , the letters to G. H. Darwin, 10 [July 1878] and 11 [ …
From George Bentham 7 August 1878
Summary
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11642 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18, letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March 1870 ). It is unlikely that the quotation, which translates as ‘How would you like it if we chose a man who says that we are descended from apes’, originated with Quatrefages. Louis Agassiz had died in 1873. On his opposition to CD’s theory of descent, see Correspondence vols. 8 and 11 …
From J. F. Fisher 13 August 1878
Summary
Discourses on the rights of animals.
| Author: | John Francis Fisher |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11656 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 Hyæna Crocuti } … probably the earliest disputants 12 Canis Lupus with man, for possession of this common 13 Symiæ Satyrus } … a scarcely perceptible inequality 14 Mumbo Jumbo. of instincts & intelligence 15 Marquis de Retz … … burned for the torture and murder in cold blood of many hundreds of children. The incarnation of Cruelty 16 John Newton … … … A Slave merchant, and subsequent “Minister of the Christian Religion” 17 Adonibezec … … … An historical illustration of the doctrine of reciprocal “action & reaction” 18 …
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 November 1877 ). For a previous discussion between Gray and CD about the terminology in Forms of flowers , see Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1876 and n. 5. CD’s son William Erasmus Darwin married Sara Sedgwick , an American, in 1877; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 and n. 10. CD had criticised Thomas Meehan’s work for inaccuracy; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 and n. 11. …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Hawkshaw, Clarke | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
