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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 and 4 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.9
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 October [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.8
Summary:

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
12 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.34
Summary:

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
21 October [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 851
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 852
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
31 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 853
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Ida
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 October [1875–9]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1064
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
26 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1647
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B5–B5a
Summary:

Acknowledges copy of Insectivorous plants; has observed Drosera filiformis leaves closing around prey.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 470
Summary:

Hopes printing of Variation [2d ed.] is going satisfactorily.

Climbing plants [2d ed.] is finished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972)
Summary:

An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 471
Summary:

Canestrini still owes £10 from 1869 for electros of 1st edition [of Variation].

RC has urged Clowes on with printing of Variation [2d ed.],

but with Climbing plants [2d ed.] ready, it need not be done before the annual sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edouard Bergson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 173
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion on whether there is a fundamental difference between the "primitive forms" of animals and plants. Mentions and rejects various views of major distinguishing characteristics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 96
Summary:

Has secured rights to Variation from Judd & Co.; had to pay $350 [dollars or pounds!?] for old plates and promise 50% discount on 150 copies of the new edition. Hopes Murray’s charge for plates of new edition will not exceed cost of doing the work in the U. S. Judd lost out considerably from small sale of his edition.

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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 19
Summary:

Wishes CD to present RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 48
Summary:

Sends an article for CD’s opinion.

Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].

His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.

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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 472
Summary:

Charge for 500 sets of the heliotype illustrations of Expression is £37 10s 6d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 392–3
Summary:

R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.

Certificate for G. J. Romanes.

Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.

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