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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[after 21 October 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 269
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 276
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[12 October 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 612
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:
Instructions on paying a bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265)
Summary:
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 8
Summary:
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
[20 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/11)
Summary:
Explains how to get to Down for visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Oct 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707)
Summary:
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 and 3 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 142: 99; DAR 157a: 103
Summary:
Discusses dimorphism of Oxalis; one form has 99% sterile anthers. Has found three kinds of fertile anthers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 301
Summary:
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
2 Oct 1866
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Declines contributing to Land and Water. Asks if Frank Buckland can insert a question about the feet of otter hounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 302
Summary:
Susan Darwin is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 361
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s patronage;
will pursue CD’s query about otter-hounds.
Remarks on continuing debate over CD’s views in BAAS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B44–5
Summary:
Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?
EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.
Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 159
Summary:
Is unable to fix a day for luncheon until later.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 266
Summary:
Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B46–7
Summary:
Disposal of Susan’s effects.
Frank and Henry [Parker] are executors.
EAD is bringing away a large packet of CD’s letters from abroad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 174: 78
Summary:
Sends sermon he preached at the BAAS Nottingham meeting ["The continuity of the schemes of nature and revelation" (1866)], in which he disagrees with CD on the gradual genesis of the human eye by natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 168
Summary:
Has searched scores of purple-fruited nut-trees, but not a nut is to be found. Has heard there are some nearby and will send them as soon as he receives them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.320)
Summary:
Comments on proofs [of Principles of geology, 10th ed. (1867–8)]: CL does not allude to the specialisation of classes.
Discusses CL’s argument from the absence of Cetacea in Secondary rocks;
finds his discussion of man "superfluous and too orthodox".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society2
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Bodleian Libraries1
- Cambridge University Library32
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität1
- Henry Bristow (dealer), Ringwood1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland2
- Kenneth W. Rendell (dealers)1
- National Library of Scotland1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond7
- Royal Institution of Great Britain2
- Royal Society2
- FEWER