To Francis Darwin [21 November 1878]
Summary
Instructs FD to make some observations on movement in Trifolium and Impatiens. Sends some seeds to be sown.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … attended ( Royal Cornwall Gazette , 20 December 1878, p. 2; Emma Darwin to H. E. …
- … 10 December 1878] (DAR 219.9: 185), and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [10 December 1878] ( …
- … T. Thiselton-Dyer, 21 November [1878] . Emma Darwin attended a concert at Bryanston Square …
- … in London on 19 November 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); CD and Emma …
- … Emma Litchfield at 4 Bryanston Street, London, from 19 to 27 November (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD visited George John Romanes (see letter to G. J. Romanes, 20 [November 1878] ). On 9 December 1878, Francis Darwin …
To Francis Darwin [17 August 1878]
Summary
Instructions to sow some seeds
and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.
Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11668 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin returned to Down on 12 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Francis had been …
- … Hugo de Vries visited CD at Abinger on 14 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … visited Barlaston, Staffordshire, the home of Emma Darwin’s brother Frank Wedgwood and his …
- … family, from 15 to 22 August 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the only Saturday …
To Benjamin Disraeli [15–18 November 1878]
Summary
A memorial signed by CD and many others, calling upon the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, to convene Parliament to discuss the ultimatum addressed to the Amir of Afghanistan, Sher Ali Khan, by the Viceroy of India, E. R. Bulwer-Lytton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield |
| Date: | [15–18 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | Manchester Guardian, 19 November 1878, p. 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11744F |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Appendix II)). In 1878, 18 May fell on Saturday. Emma Darwin recorded Romanes’s arrival …
- … at Down on that day ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma did not record the …
- … on 27 May 1878 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … or Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Francis Darwin returned from Wales …
To Hugo de Vries [10 or 11 August 1878]
Summary
Arranges for HdeV to call.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [10 or 11 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11643 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 August [1878]
Summary
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11651 |
From C. G. Semper 5 October 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for writing machine.
Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].
| Author: | Carl Gottfried Semper |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11716 |
From E. W. Fithian 30 May 1878
Summary
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
| Author: | Edward William Fithian |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11535 |
To G. J. Romanes 20 August 1878
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11671 |
To Francis Darwin [19 August 1878]
Summary
Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 4v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11669 |
From G. J. Romanes 10 April 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter of sympathy.
Would like to visit in May.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11469 |
To Francis Darwin 7 [July 1878]
Summary
Describes sleep movements in Porlieria and his experiments on movements of radicles.
Thalia flowers have interesting mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 [July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11595 |
To G. H. Darwin 17 [August 1878]
Summary
He and Emma rejoice that GHD’s mathematical troubles are at an end. It is miraculous that he unconsciously followed the right course – like composing a sonata by a fluke.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11663 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 December 1878
Summary
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11796 |
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 |
To J. F. Fisher 8 August [1878]
Summary
Agrees to read manuscript if short.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Fisher |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645 |
To Raphael Meldola 19 November [1878]
Summary
Invites RM to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11748 |
To Hugo de Vries 8 August [1878]
Summary
Regrets he cannot receive HdeV at Down, because he has just left home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11645F |
From W. E. Darwin 10 July [1878]
Summary
Has taken OCM to the photographer’s, and is sending photographs to be signed.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11597F |
To B. J. Sulivan 5 November [1878]
Summary
Thanks for account of Fuegians
and news about old "Beaglers".
Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11736 |
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