To Francis Darwin 15 [July 1878]
Summary
A report has arrived for FD which CD will forward.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 15 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11511 |
From Francis Darwin [after 14 July 1878]
Summary
Thinks it would be a good idea to give the typing machine to Karl Semper.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553F |
From Francis Darwin [July 1878]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.14: 181 [2nd sheet] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11578 |
To Francis Darwin [before 17 July 1878]
Summary
Thanks for list of sleepers.
Thinks it would be a good idea to give writing machine to Carl Semper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11579 |
To M. H. Truelove 1 July 1878
Summary
Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.
Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maurice Hawley Truelove |
Date: | 1 July 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11580 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July 1878
Summary
JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.
Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c. 1875 – c. 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11581 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1878
Summary
Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 350 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11582 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1878
Summary
JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.
Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11583 |
To O. C. Marsh 2 July 1878
Summary
Will be glad to see OCM at Down. If he comes Friday, he will meet J. F. McLennan, author of Primitive marriage, a "remarkable man".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Othniel Charles Marsh |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11584 |
To Francis Darwin 2 July [1878]
Summary
Suggests FD call on Carl Semper.
Inquires about Porlieria: Do the leaves shut to check evaporation? Does it appear silver under water?
Explains how he thinks the pulvinus acts; wishes FD would investigate the point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11586 |
To W. H. Dallinger 2 July 1878
Summary
Has no doubt WHD’s experiments on mutation of lower organisms under changed conditions of life will be curious and valuable. The fact of their becoming accustomed to much higher temperatures than those to which they are adapted is very remarkable. It explains the existence of algae in hot springs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Dallinger |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Dallinger 1887, p. 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11587 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 July [1878]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 473 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11588 |
To [G.-G. Baillière?] 5 July 1878
Summary
Hopes Baillière will inform Cosserat how pleased he is with the new translation of Coral Reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustave-Germer Baillière |
Date: | 5 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (7 February 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11590F |
To O. C. Marsh 5 July [1878]
Summary
Delighted to see him on Tuesday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Othniel Charles Marsh |
Date: | 5 July [1878] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (O. C. Marsh Papers (MS 343) Series 1, Box 8, folder 327) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11591 |
From Hermann Müller 5 July 1878
Summary
Reports results of crosses between the two forms of Viola tricolor: 1. Female small flower crossed with male large flower yields all small flowers (cleistogamous self-fertilisation suspected); 2. Male small flower crossed with female large yields intermediate flowers; 3. Large flower crossed with large flower yields self-sterility symptoms.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11592 |
To Francis Darwin 6 [July 1878]
Summary
Has a magnificent bush of Porlieria. There is no vestige of bloom; CD will test for sleep movements. Reports successful experiments on temperature-induced sensitivity of radicles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11593 |
From Francis Darwin [before 7 July 1878]
Summary
He has been talking to Julius von Sachs about sleeping plants that move with and without growth.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11593F |
To William Spottiswoode 7 July [1878]
Summary
Has been approached by [H. R. Hope-]Pinker who wishes to sculpt him for the Royal Institution; asks whether WS has any knowledge of the matter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Spottiswoode |
Date: | 7 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11594 |
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 |
From Francis Darwin [after 7 July 1878]
Summary
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11596 |
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Darwin, Francis | (8) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
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Allen, J. A. (b) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
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Darwin, Francis | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
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Marsh, O. C. | (3) |