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:
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:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 302
Summary:
Susan Darwin is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
13 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 86
Summary:
Greatly interested in case of purple nuts but, after seeing TR’s specimens, dares not trust his case. Wishes he lived near TR or were strong enough to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 21–4
Summary:
Lists some alterations which must be made to the drawings [for Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 303
Summary:
Introduces Ernst Haeckel.
Lyell sent same chapters to CD, who thinks them very good but is not convinced that changes of land and water will do all he thinks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Laxton
Date:
31 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 35
Summary:
Thanks for box of crossed peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project