From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 271
Summary:
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 174
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 425–6
Summary:
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
26 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 330
Summary:
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
28 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 146
Summary:
Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 68
Summary:
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64)
Summary:
Discussing a purchase of land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 218
Summary:
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project