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DCP-LETT-6371F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6372

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 221
Summary:

Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.

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DCP-LETT-6373

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 44
Summary:

Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.

Asks advice on books.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6375

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A14–17
Summary:

Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.

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DCP-LETT-6376

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 360
Summary:

JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:

Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Higgins
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/17/8)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
19 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5)
Summary:

Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].

Suggests books on Lobelia.

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DCP-LETT-6380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
19 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 352
Summary:

Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6381

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 45
Summary:

Sends an addition to Lobelia paper; admires adaptations for fertilisation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6381F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[13–21 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.

Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.

Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6382

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
21 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14)
Summary:

Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].

His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6383

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 222
Summary:

Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.

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DCP-LETT-6384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
22 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.36)
Summary:

Sends addition to T. H. Farrer’s [Lobelia] paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 2 (1868): 255–63].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6385

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 361
Summary:

Lost copy of Variation sent to B. D. Walsh has been traced as far as New York.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 153–6)
Summary:

On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6387

From:
Charles W Nunn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 172: 79
Summary:

Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6388

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 261
Summary:

Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/6)
Summary:

Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
24 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 147: 419
Summary:

Discusses GdeS’s studies on fossil plants;

response to Origin in France.

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