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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
14 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 )
Summary:

Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.

Sends photograph of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 205)
Summary:

Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 144
Summary:

Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.

Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 231
Summary:

Sends £10 for Down charities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 302
Summary:

Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 103–103/4
Summary:

Has heard about but not read Origin; is concerned that it may contribute to unbelief. Gives many pages of scriptural quotations and exegesis on the creation of earth, species, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1864]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965
Summary:

Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 251
Summary:

Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].

CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Cook Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4
Summary:

Encloses an extract concerning beans from the Systema Horticultureæ of 1688 by J. Worlidge. Will be pleased to lend the volume if needed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 1
Summary:

Sends a poem about sowing kidney beans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Edward Frere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 2
Summary:

Responds to the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 8 October 1864].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 169: 14
Summary:

Requests photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Buxton
Date:
12 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A36–7
Summary:

Has heard that the yeast in CB’s brewery has failed. Asks for confirmation and answers to some questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 162: 180
Summary:

In response to CD’s notice in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 93], sends planting times of peas from an 1861 almanac.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 51
Summary:

Prescribes continuing the phosphate of iron.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? Oct 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 246, 246a
Summary:

Morphological differences only partly define species; physiological differences, e.g., incompatibility results in Primula, are far more interesting.

T. Thomson’s review of Agardh’s muddled book ["Agardh’s classification of plants", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 536–51].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
21 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Thanks for letter and memoirs.

Suggests a "rather hopeless experiment" of introducing poisons into tissues of plants on the chance that monstrous growths may be produced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Buxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 375, 394
Summary:

Forwards a letter from his head brewer, Laurence Burleigh, on yeast. They seldom exchange yeast with other brewers, and he doubts whether weak yeast from one brewery will ferment strongly in another.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 252
Summary:

To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.

On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.

CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
25 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 475
Summary:

Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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