From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 276
Summary:
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 7
Summary:
Inquires whether previous letter was received by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 8
Summary:
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 and 13 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 120
Summary:
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 6)
Summary:
Has found Lythrum, and sends some. Wants to know what CD thinks of frog discussion between Sandars and James. Asks CD to send objects for microscope demonstration. Means to go see the London Exhibition again. Has finished reading Orley Farm and returns it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 67
Summary:
Doubts he has a chance of being elected F.R.S. because he is 58.
Will send a skull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 7)
Summary:
Discusses length of pistils, and measuring seeds and pods for botanical work.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 294
Summary:
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 295
Summary:
Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.
This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8)
Summary:
Sends comments on Lythrum.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 59–60, 86
Summary:
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 277
Summary:
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 278
Summary:
Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.
Contributor:
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 153
Summary:
Sends CD the reference for GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s work [see 3760].
Hopes for a communication to the Linnean Society from CD "this winter".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 5
Summary:
Believes the [Lythrum] seeds have been sent to CD by Stratton [Curator, Cambridge Botanic Garden]. They have none of the others requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 70
Summary:
Discusses German editions of Origin and Orchids.
Sends publication dealing with leaves.
Relates amusing case of paternity confirmed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 71
Summary:
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 63
Summary:
Does CD want Masdevallia?
Sends addresses of persons in S. America who would send Melastomataceae seeds.
Has ordered Matthieu Bonafous on maize [Histoire naturelle du maïs (1836)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 276
Summary:
Confirms arrangements for his trip to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 93
Summary:
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project