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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 78
Summary:

Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.

Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 118
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Catasetum exemplifies slight modification of structure leading to new structure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 119
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 79
Summary:

Discusses business matters relating to WED and the bank.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.

Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 80
Summary:

Tells of a shooting competition at Down.

Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a
Summary:

JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.

Orchid anatomy.

Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 122
Summary:

Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 82
Summary:

Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 86
Summary:

Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 89
Summary:

Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 131
Summary:

JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.

Faunal distribution and the glacial period.

Orchid homologies.

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