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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 74
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Francis
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 7 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 77
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Francis
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 [October 1861?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, W. E.; Darwin, Francis
Date:
[27 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 84
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
9 October 1861
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.266)
Summary:
The flint tools found at Bedford.
Further discussion of Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy by a glacial lake. Comments on formation of Glen Spean terraces. Mentions glaciers in North Wales.
Agreement with John Murray to publish [Orchids].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
1 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:
Discusses seed capsules [of Epipactis palustris?].
Sorry AGM is in bad health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
2 Oct 1861
Source of text:
DAR 143: 50
Summary:
Thanks HWB for information on Volucella, although he does not know when he will use it.
Is glad HWB is beginning his book.
CD is beginning work on his orchid book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 110–111)
Summary:
Would JM object to size of Orchids being same as W. N. Hutchinson, Dog breeding [1850]? Prefers little book, not to look pretentious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 115, DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Query on orchid homology.
Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Likes the idea of matching Orchids with Origin. Begs for large print and spacing so that the book will not look "ridiculously small".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6–7 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 116
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
6 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251/330)
Summary:
Thanks for JG’s book [An introduction to the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds (1861)], which he has read carefully. Hopes someday to use the information on the close alliance of species in large genera.
CD repudiates hybridity of birds in nature.
Intends to extract the cases of "races" or doubtful species. They show that "determination of species is not a simple affair".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
8 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 31 (EH 88206014)
Summary:
Asks DO to look for nectar in Stanhopea saccata labellum. CD’s theory predicts nectar should be present, but afraid there is none.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 31
Summary:
Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Pinned to CD’s unbound copy of Journal of Horticulture , 8 October 1861, p. 38 (Darwin Library–CUL)
Summary:
Fancies articles on "The queen bee" and "Drone influence" [J. Hortic. 8 October 1861, p. 39] may be of interest. Since writing the latter, one of his drones hybridised a queen at a distance of a mile and a half.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 117
Summary:
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society3
- Cambridge University Library27
- English Heritage, Down House, Downe1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland2
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Private collection (N 20863)1
- Rogers family (private collection)1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond4
- Royal Institution of Great Britain6
- Royal Irish Academy1
- Royal Society1
- Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library1
- The National Archives (TNA), Kew, Richmond1
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections1
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