From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[11 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 17
Summary:
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 190
Summary:
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 195
Summary:
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 66–7
Summary:
JDH back from his honeymoon.
Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159
Summary:
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 173
Summary:
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 57
Summary:
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
23 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL, Henslow 1888 (tipped in opposite p. 190)
Summary:
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 270
Summary:
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 271
Summary:
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 174
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 425–6
Summary:
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
26 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 330
Summary:
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
28 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 146
Summary:
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 68
Summary:
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64)
Summary:
Discussing a purchase of land.
Contributor:
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From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 218
Summary:
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
Contributor:
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