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To J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand   12 August [1878]

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Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
Date:  12 Aug [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11653

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  • … DAR 202: 21 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place 12 Aug [1878] Jean-Baptiste-André ( …

From W. C. Marshall   25 September [1878]

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Observations on insectivorous plants.

Author:  William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 86: B1–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10173

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  • … 3 4 34 4 22 5 26 5 57 6 40 6 7 7 16 7 21 8 12 8 22 9 9 9 19 10 2 10 11 175 11 5 & 2 seeds …

To C. G. Semper   [after 6 December 1878]

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Gives CGS permission to use his letters in any way he thinks fit.

Discusses the direct effect of external conditions as an agent of change in organisms; has encountered many cases since the publication of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:  [after 6 Dec 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 120v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11777

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  • … to C.  W.  von Nägeli, 12 June [1866] , and letter to J.  V.  Carus, 21 November 1866 ). …

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

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  • 12 August ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Edward Frankland often assisted CD with chemical aspects of his research; he had perfomed several experiments on CD’s behalf when CD was working on Insectivorous plants (see Correspondence vols. 21

From Francis Darwin   [before 22 November 1878]

Summary

Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 22 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754F

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  • 21 November (DAR 209.6: 66). The experiments with geranium leaves were part of CD’s and Francis’s investigation of bloom in plants (see, for example, letter to Francis Darwin, 12

To Asa Gray   17 February [1878]

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Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  17 Feb [1878]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11364

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  • 12 February 1878. CD had written to Gray about Linum perenne (blue flax) in his letter of 21 [ …

To Francis Darwin   12 September [1878]

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Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  12 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11690

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  • 21, letter from W. E. Darwin, 30 August – 14 September [1873] , Correspondence vol. 25, letter from W. E. Darwin, [12

To B. J. Placzek   15 September 1878

Summary

Will be interested to read BP’s work on history [of evolution?].

A learned Jew in Poland [Napthali Lewy?] has published a volume showing that evolution is an ancient belief.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Baruch Jakob Placzek
Date:  15 Sept 1878
Classmark:  DAR 147: 244
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11694

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  • 21–2; 13 February 1878, pp. 29–30; 20 February 1878, pp. 34–5; 27 February 1878, pp. 41–2; 13 March 1878, pp. 49–50; 17 April 1878, pp. 62–3; 5 June 1878, pp. 89–90; 12

From J. F. Fisher   13 August 1878

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Discourses on the rights of animals.

Author:  John Francis Fisher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Aug 1878
Classmark:  DAR 164: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11656

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  • 12 Canis Lupus with man, for possession of this common 13 Symiæ Satyrus } … a scarcely perceptible inequality 14 Mumbo Jumbo. of instincts & intelligence 15 Marquis de Retz … … burned for the torture and murder in cold blood of many hundreds of children. The incarnation of Cruelty 16 John Newton … … … A Slave merchant, and subsequent “Minister of the Christian Religion” 17 Adonibezec … … … An historical illustration of the doctrine of reciprocal “action & reaction” 18 Alfred Wallace … Depose to the frequent presence of 19 Ernest Smith } invisible and inexplicable “Forces” 20 Edward Hitchcock …. on the “Religion of Geology” 21