From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 71
Summary:
Observations on Drosera: plants can distinguish minute quantities of nitrogenous substances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 31–2
Summary:
Announces great ally for CD: K. E. von Baer "worth all the Owens & Bishops that ever were pupped". Quotes Baer: "J’ai énoncé les mêmes idées que M. Darwin", but based only on zoological geography.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 72
Summary:
Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.
Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".
Anatomy of orchids.
Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Théophile Gaudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 164
Summary:
Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40
Summary:
Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
