From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.
Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 80
Summary:
Tells of a shooting competition at Down.
Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a
Summary:
JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.
Orchid anatomy.
Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 122
Summary:
Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 82
Summary:
Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Robert B. Nichol
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Oct 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/80)
Summary:
Can WK supply any information on runes and runic inscriptions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 31
Summary:
Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project