From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 3
Summary:
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 65
Summary:
Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 94
Summary:
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 335
Summary:
Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 362–3)
Summary:
Final arrangements for publishing Erasmus Darwin. If he were publishing on commission he would have printed only 1000 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Alston; Emily Beke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 125
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B3–4
Summary:
Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Alberts, Karl1
- Asher, G. M.1
- Candolle, Casimir de1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Darwin, C. R.21
- Darwin, Horace1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Farrer, T. H.3
- Garrison, W. P.2
- Gray, Asa1
- Harvard University Library1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- John Murray1
- Lubbock, John1
- Mackintosh, Daniel2
- Morse, E. S.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Retzius, Gustaf1
- Schulte, Eduard1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Sim, George1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.1
- Unidentified1
- FEWER
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Farrer, T. H.5
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Garrison, W. P.3
- Mackintosh, Daniel3
- Schulte, Eduard3
- Asher, G. M.2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Dallas, W. S.2
- John Murray2
- Krause, Ernst2
- Retzius, Gustaf2
- Sim, George2
- Sulivan, B. J.2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Alberts, Karl1
- Alston, Emily1
- Beke, Emily1
- Candolle, Casimir de1
- Darwin, Horace1
- Dodel-Port, Arnold1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hacon, W. M.1
- Harvard University Library1
- Lubbock, John1
- Morse, E. S.1
- Packard, A. S., Jr1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Semper, C. G.1
- Unidentified1