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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 276
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 276
Summary:
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223)
Summary:
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7)
Summary:
Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.
Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
8 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
11 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
13 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 374
Summary:
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
17 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3)
Summary:
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
[18–22 Oct 1865]
Source of text:
Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (30 March 2017)
Summary:
Handwritten extract from Origin 3d ed., p. 514.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 325
Summary:
Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93)
Summary:
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Summary:
Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 277, 277b
Summary:
Darwin agrees with Hooker's comments about ARW in Hooker's letter of 6 Oct 1865. Hooker's letter he describes ARW as: "... not a man of large sympathies, nor very charitable I think, & is certainly awfully cold & dry at times; yet he is essentially large minded, & very able".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 and 28 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 277
Summary:
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043)
Summary:
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25–6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146)
Summary:
Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.
News of family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56)
Summary:
Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project