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DCP-LETT-1016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10164

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:

Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].

Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
Summary:

Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]

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DCP-LETT-10167F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Sept [1875-6]
Source of text:
Empire Auction (dealers) (1996)
Summary:

Encloses a photograph and [?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476)
Summary:

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10169F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Brief-ID 11494)
Summary:

Thinks JGFR should send report of coloured spots on infants’ buttocks to some ethnological society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
3 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].

Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.

Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913)
Summary:

From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.

Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.

Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 27–8)
Summary:

CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10177F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection, tipped into Insectivorous plants (1875): MS Misc. Letters 2)
Summary:

Thanks him for his kind review of Insectivorous plants in the Spectator. Disputes Tait’s report of a Nepenthes that trapped a fly but did not digest it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[31 Aug 1875 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 13
Summary:

Sends proofs of Variation [2d ed.] for FD to look over.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10179G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Newton
Date:
1 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (dealers) (27 May 2021, lot 0090)
Summary:

Sends his compliments and thanks [with payment of £13 to TWN for compiling catalogue of CD’s books].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1017F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[4 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010)
Summary:

Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:

Observations on barnacles.

Would like to meet JDH in London.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30)
Summary:

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
6 Oct 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 326–7)
Summary:

Fears Variation [2d ed.] will not be ready for Murray’s annual sale unless printer sends proof more quickly. Arrangements with Italian publishers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
7 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Summary:

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Summary:

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Contributor:
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