From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 5
Summary:
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 142
Summary:
Support CD’s views on variability of species, but believes they must be interpreted "spiritualisticamente".
Cross-fertilisation in the Asclepiadaceae.
Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 119
Summary:
Variation between individuals of a species.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 30)
Summary:
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 176: 171
Summary:
Reports on a curious cross in peach varieties, in which the male made a firm large peach into a fruit more almond-like than itself.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 60
Summary:
JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 178
Summary:
Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 329
Summary:
AM discusses his new journal [J. Travel & Nat. Hist.] of which general opinion seems to be favourable. Has room for the occasional contributor, if CD knows of any.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 158
Summary:
AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 350, 524
Summary:
Sends CD cheque for £250, two-thirds of the profits on the sale of 700 copies of Origin, 4th ed.
Hopes he has found a suitable indexer for Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 179
Summary:
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 351
Summary:
Schweizerbart anxious to get Variation sheets for German translation. Hopes he has found a good indexer in W. S. Dallas.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 157a: 106
Summary:
Sends seeds of Viola roxburghiana which produces perfect flowers in the cold season and imperfect ones in the rains, all perfectly fertile.
Leersia has not produced a single perfect flower though it grows freely.
Discusses cockatoos eating various seeds. Finds it difficult to make exact and satisfactory observations.
Appends list of Vandellia species which have perfect flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 58
Summary:
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.
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