From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 112
Summary:
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 30, 66 (EH 88206013, EH 88206049)
Summary:
Has put Drosera off while amusing himself with Primula and orchids.
Dionaea is prettily adapted to weight detection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 113
Summary:
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 114
Summary:
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Fawcett
Date:
18 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Comments on MS of HF’s address ["On the method of Mr Darwin in his treatise on the origin of species", Rep. BAAS (1861) pt 2: 141–3]. "How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service."
Describes his health.
The response to his views in Germany, Holland, and Russia.
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Darwin Correspondence Project