From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
3 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 282
Summary:
Thanks for letter about death of Erasmus Darwin.
Cannot answer question about dotterels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 and 4 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 532–5
Summary:
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Sept [1881?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 94–5)
Summary:
Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project