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DCP-LETT-10163

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:

Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.

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DCP-LETT-10164

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:

Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].

Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.

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DCP-LETT-10165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
Summary:

Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]

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DCP-LETT-10166

From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9
Summary:

Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10167

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–4 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C63–4
Summary:

Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?

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DCP-LETT-10167F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Sept [1875-6]
Source of text:
Empire Auction (dealers) (1996)
Summary:

Encloses a photograph and [?].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476)
Summary:

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10169

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:

Sends a lecture CD wished to see

and corrects himself about the twins.

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DCP-LETT-10169F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Brief-ID 11494)
Summary:

Thinks JGFR should send report of coloured spots on infants’ buttocks to some ethnological society.

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DCP-LETT-10170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].

Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.

Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].

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DCP-LETT-10171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913)
Summary:

From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.

Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.

Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10172

From:
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 143
Summary:

Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].

Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.

Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.

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DCP-LETT-10174

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 208
Summary:

Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.

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DCP-LETT-10175

From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 132
Summary:

Comments on Insectivorous plants.

Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.

Discusses genus Ginkgo.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10176

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 34–7
Summary:

Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 27–8)
Summary:

CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

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DCP-LETT-13835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
18 Sept [1875-9]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 277
Summary:

Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13836F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
[10 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Hopes to meet Dresser and his guest, N. A. Severtsov, on returning to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9219A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1875 or later?]
Source of text:
CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection R112
Summary:

Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].

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DCP-LETT-10147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
1 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 328–9)
Summary:

Thanks RC for his kind note. It was only Climbing plants for which he wanted the proofs to have wide margins. Wishes he understood more about printing. It would be a great convenience to authors if exterior margins of proofs were broad.

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