From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
Summary:
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 130
Summary:
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
7 [July] 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 17 July 1869, p. 82
Summary:
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 2
Summary:
WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project