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DCP-LETT-5062A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698)
Summary:

Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.

In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.

Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5063

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
21 Apr 1866
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks for information about publications.

Hopes Hans Geinitz will take care in correcting Bronn’s translation [of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 285
Summary:

Thanks for facts about New Zealand flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5064A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[23 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (Bence Jones autograph letter file)
Summary:

Had hoped to call, but cannot do so comfortably, so will HBJ call on CD instead, for a consultation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5065

From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 162: 181
Summary:

Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5067

From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 119
Summary:

Coming to London for Botanical Congress. Requests interview.

Thanks for photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5068

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 230
Summary:

Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[26 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS GR/1a/99)
Summary:

Makes arrangements to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
27 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:

Asks for racemes of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus and C. adami for comparison, because Robert Caspary argues that C. adami is not a common hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 287
Summary:

Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).

Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.

Was very well on first part of London visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
[29 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/25)
Summary:

Is sorry to have missed seeing WR.

Mentions some crossing experiments with Nymphaea and Euryale in which he would be interested, if WR ever had the chance to make them [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 365].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 283
Summary:

Asks how many plants are proper to New Zealand for new edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5074

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[14–21 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 59
Summary:

Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5076

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:

Orchids.

Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.

Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000593

From:
William P Jones
To:
Royal Society
Date:
24 April 1866
Source of text:
MM/11/7, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001286

From:
William Jackson Hooker
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
23 April 1866
Source of text:
MM/18/27, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday4578

From:
Henry Wilde
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1866
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel10517

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.394
Summary:

Regrets his reply [to Hind's 1866-1-30?] is late owing to absence on an excursion. Has not heard that either comet has been perceived. Has not seen Otto Struve's remarks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11178

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.68
Summary:

Would like JH's comments on one of his own theories regarding screw propulsion of ships. Sent it to the Admiralty, who rejected it. Can JH's son recommend a good resume of the physical and chemical composition of aerolithes?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11630

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Charles Knowles
Date:
[23 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.154
Summary:

In response to FK's 1866-4-17, JH says that he knows nothing about screw propulsion in ships and so cannot comment on FK's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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