To J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand 12 August [1878]
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 |
From W. C. Marshall 25 September [1878]
Author: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10173 |
To C. G. Semper [after 6 December 1878]
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1878]
Summary
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 |
To Francis Darwin 12 September [1878]
Summary
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 |
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 |
From J. F. Fisher 13 August 1878
Author: | John Francis Fisher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11656 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
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