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DCP-LETT-6937

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 117, 119
Summary:

Sends abstract of her BAAS paper on the role of a parasitic fungus in producing bisexual flowers in Lychnis.

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DCP-LETT-6938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 379
Summary:

Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.

T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.

Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.

Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].

Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.

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FVM-69-10-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 408
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 277)
Summary:

Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],

but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.

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WCP657

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Rudolf Felder
Date:
14 October 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418395
Summary:

Discusses the relationship of the Sub-Order Heterocera within the Order Lepidoptera. Thanks Felder for and congratulates him on his plates of the Heterocera.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6535

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[after 14 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 180: 4
Summary:

Describes expression of her baby when crying.

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