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DCP-LETT-8085

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 37–8
Summary:

Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8086

From:
Edson Sowden C. Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 161
Summary:

Offers to provide information on the habits of the animals of northern New York and Canada.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8086A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
26 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

Thanks HL for his kind note, the interesting notice, & the photograph.

He has made a mistake about the Lepas. It is the L. australis that is confined to the S. Hemisphere. L. hillii is found all over the world. Refers HL to Living Cirripedia [1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 445–8
Summary:

CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.

Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8088

From:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 159
Summary:

Thanks CD for copies of the Origin and Cirripedia;

sends his latest publication in return [Beiträge zur Parthenogenesis der Arthropoden (1871)]. Discusses his work on parthenogenesis which, he believes, is a case of atavism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8303F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[before 16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 13 (1873): 152
Summary:

Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9208

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 163
Summary:

W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
[18 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 384
Summary:

Much perplexed by W. Crookes’s article. He can neither disbelieve nor believe. Article has removed some of his difficulty in that the supposed power is not an anomaly. Hopes men such as G. G. Stokes will be induced to witness Crookes’s experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7767

From:
Robert Main and Charles Pritchard to R.A.S.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1871]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/4.2.3; Reel 11
Summary:

Report on late JH's manuscript on General History of Double Stars, bequeathed to R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC243

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
10 November 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.75, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH suggests [Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff become a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Asks after Grant Duff's continental tour with his wife. Complains that the Ayrton controversy is deteriorating further, JDH has brought it to the attention of Prime minister Gladstone & predicts it will end with the dismissal of himself or [Acton Smee] Ayrton.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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