From:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 19
Summary:
Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 155
Summary:
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A3
Summary:
Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 144
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 56
Summary:
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
T. Thompson
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 60
Summary:
Writes, as county magistrate, in an attempt to get payment from the Club for a Mr Reeves.
Contributor:
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From:
John Fox & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 61v
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s cheque in payment of his account.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 57
Summary:
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 25
Summary:
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 332
Summary:
Has a book of photographs of Japanese that CD might be interested in for his work on expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 58
Summary:
Sends notes on observations of Passiflora and Tacsonia; Hooker thinks they would be worth reading at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 10
Summary:
Asks for some money for his fees.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Summary:
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 124
Summary:
Reports on his findings in Denbighshire caves ["The Denbighshire caves", Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 9 (1869–70): 31–7].
Sends his paper ["On the prae-historic Mammalia in Great Britain", Intellect. Obs. (1868): 403–10].
Has changed his view on the descent of British cattle from the wild aurochs. No evidence that aurochs survived into historic times in Britain.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 72
Summary:
Koch [of Schweizerbart’s, publisher of German translations of CD’s works] has inquired when CD’s new book on man will be out. JVC assures CD that the book should be translated into German, and offers his services.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:
Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.
Returns to U. S. on 9 November.
Contributor:
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