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 |
From George Rolleston 16 August 1878
Summary
Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11477 |
To R. A. Blair 4 [August] 1878
Summary
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reuben Almond Blair |
| Date: | 4 [Aug] 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11589 |
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 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 2 August [1878]
Summary
Thanks for plants and seeds; requests for more to test Sachs’s notion on "bloom".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 141–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11637 |
From Francis Darwin [before 3 August 1878]
Summary
Sachs jumps to the conclusion twiners and tendrils are similar from the Menispermum that twined without a stick. Akebia grows down a stick; not only the free end is involved.
Sleeping plants.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Aug 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.8: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11638 |
To Francis Darwin 3 August [1878]
Summary
Is pleased FD’s climbing work goes well.
Thanks him for information on heliotropism.
Discusses sleep movements
and his observations on the sensitivity of radicle tips.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11639 |
To W. H. Flower 4 [August] 1878
Summary
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 4 [Aug] 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11640 |
From A. S. Wilson 6 August 1878
Summary
Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.
| Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11641 |
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 |
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 L. A. Errera 8 August [1878]
Summary
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Léo Abram Errera |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11644 |
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 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 |
To A. S. Wilson 9 August [1878]
Summary
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11646 |
From Paul Broca 5 August 1878
Summary
Invites CD and Mrs Darwin to stay at his home if they plan to attend the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences, 16–21 August, and the seventh session of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 22–9 August.
| Author: | Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 314 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11647 |
From Gaston de Saporta 9 August 1878
Summary
Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11648 |
To George Bentham 10 August [1878]
Summary
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11649 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 10 August 1878
Summary
Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11650 |
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 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Adams, A. L. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (3) |
| Goodacre, F. B. | (2) |
| Adams, A. L. | (1) |
| Behrens, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Bertrand, Joseph | (2) |
| Blair, R. A. | (1) |
| Broca, Paul | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
| Crocq, Jean | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
| Darwin, Francis | (8) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dumas, Jean-Baptiste | (2) |
| Errera, L. A. | (2) |
| Fisher, J. F. | (2) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Giner de los Ríos, Hermenegildo | (1) |
| Goodacre, F. B. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Heckel, Édouard | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Ledeganck, Kasimir | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius | (1) |
| Radovanović, Marinko | (1) |
| Randolph, Richard | (1) |
| Rolleston, George | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Vignes, E. | (1) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (4) |
| Wharton, W. J. L. | (1) |
| Wilson, A. S. | (2) |
| Woolner, Thomas | (1) |
