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From George Henslow [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 431 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11219 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 432 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11220 |
From Fritz Müller 20 February 1878
Summary
Reports butterfly species that apparently mimic each other and gives details of some odoriferous species.
[Letter copied in Raphael Meldola’s hand from original sent to Meldola with 11449.]
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11368 |
To T. M. Reade 20 February [1878]
Summary
Doubtful that great heat would favour development of lower organisms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11369 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
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2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … references and bibliography Dohrn’s letter to Darwin, 30 Nov. 1867: DCP-LETT-5701. Dohrn to Darwin …
- … Nature 8 (29 May 1873), p. 81. Thomas Huxley’s letter to Dohrn, 15 Nov. 1873, explaining plans …
- … for the Stazione: DCP-LETT-9412. Darwin’s follow-up letter to Dohrn, enclosing his personal …
- … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …
