From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:
About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:
Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.
Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:
Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.251
Summary:
Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 247]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project