From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 173: 1
Summary:
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Fletcher Hance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 96
Summary:
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 233–4
Summary:
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 95–6
Summary:
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B67
Summary:
Accepts invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 September [1868]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B67
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 148
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 222]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 31
Summary:
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emanuel Bonavia
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 26 September 1868, p. 1013
Summary:
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 77
Summary:
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 271
Summary:
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 216
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7.
Summary:
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 85
Summary:
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 43
Summary:
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 426b
Summary:
ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11] [September] [1868]
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 222]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 314
Summary:
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A25–6
Summary:
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14?] [September?] [1868?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A25-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project