From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 216
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7.
Summary:
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 85
Summary:
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 43
Summary:
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 426b
Summary:
ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 314
Summary:
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A25–6
Summary:
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
15 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4)
Summary:
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
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From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 165
Summary:
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
Date:
16 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (Hinrichs Papers, IHLC MS 712, Box 5)
Summary:
Acknowledges letter of 31 August and various works. Regrets he is unable to help GH with his works but will seek to interest Tyndall. Discourages GH on prospect of publication of his new book in England.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50)
Summary:
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.190–191)
Summary:
B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 165
Summary:
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
Contributor:
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From:
John Syer Bristowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 311
Summary:
Reports a case of peculiar colouring in grapes, each with well-defined segments of purple.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 221
Summary:
Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 44
Summary:
Encouraged by CD’s reply. Sends another paper, on blue Lobelia.
Asks advice on books.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A14–17
Summary:
Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 360
Summary:
JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:
Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].
Contributor:
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