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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 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 |
From Francis Darwin [4–7 August 1878]
Summary
Experiments on effects of removing "bloom" from leaves and fruit.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–7 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11632 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
