From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 18
Summary:
Wants CD to contribute to a new magazine to promote theism.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 40–1
Summary:
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 47: 205–6
Summary:
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 473
Summary:
Sends a copy of Climbing plants [2d ed.]. Price cannot be higher than 6s.
Variation [2d ed.] price will be 18s, if CD approves. Future reprints will not be costly, since both have been stereotyped.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 305
Summary:
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
Contributor:
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 37
Summary:
Has heard that 2d ed. of Variation is out. If CD will send it to him, he will complete the Italian translation in a short time.
His translation of Expression is nearly finished [published in 1878],
and the 2d ed. of Origin is almost entirely published.
Contributor:
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From:
Gustavus Fritsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 217
Summary:
About a Polish edition of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
25 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961)
Summary:
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 49
Summary:
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 476
Summary:
Stereotype plates of Climbing plants sent to D. Appleton’s agent.
A revised edition of Orchids would be desirable.
Contributor:
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From:
George Wilkinson Morehouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 237
Summary:
Has found a spiral fibre in Drosera rotundifolia leaves which resembles animal muscle but is probably a modified ordinary plant fibre.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 49
Summary:
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 436
Summary:
On HM’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Contributor:
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From:
James Jameson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 168: 44
Summary:
Report, from a reader of Expression, of a Negro boy’s monkey-like screams while having fractured femur adjusted without chloroform.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 48
Summary:
CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:
29 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C4–6
Summary:
CD would feel bound to give evidence to the Royal Commission on vivisection should they ask him, but he has no personal experience of the matter. Expresses his opinions on the importance to physiology of experiments on live animals.
Contributor:
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