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DCP-LETT-6442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Scientific Opinion
Date:
[before 20 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426.
Summary:

Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6945

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
20 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/10)
Summary:

Comments on notes made by THF on Passiflora and Tacsonia. Suggests he examine more species. Recalls his own observations on P. princeps and Tacsonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6946

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:

Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.

Returns to U. S. on 9 November.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6947

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 72
Summary:

Koch [of Schweizerbart’s, publisher of German translations of CD’s works] has inquired when CD’s new book on man will be out. JVC assures CD that the book should be translated into German, and offers his services.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6948

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 26
Summary:

Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.

Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6949

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B86–7
Summary:

Looks forward to Descent, though he expects to find more to differ with than in any other of CD’s books.

Problems of usefulness of incipient organs and of the independent origin of similar complex organs are real difficulties.

Plans a little book on "Distribution of animals".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6950

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 273
Summary:

Wishes to translate CD’s forthcoming work on man into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7227

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.410
Summary:

Regarding a mistake in his old address. Hopes U. J. J. Leverrier will arrive safely after all. Cold weather is bracing him up.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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