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DCP-LETT-4346

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 141
Summary:

CD’s poor health.

Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
25 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58)
Summary:

CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.

Thanks RT for orchid specimen.

Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.

Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.

Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4348

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:

On Wedgwood vases for JDH.

Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4349

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 24
Summary:

Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,

and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037)
Summary:

Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4671

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:

CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hurst & Blackett
Date:
15 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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