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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
9 October 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17)
Summary:
Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 406-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
H. Turberville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.380
Summary:
Describes his visit to Exeter. Hopes JH received a package sent the previous week. Asks question concerning lens making.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[10 October 1869]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #2190 (Oct. 16, 1869), 498
Summary:
Calls attention to James Grahame's History of the United States of North America. Criticizes the Saturday Review for having slighted that work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
11 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AdeC for his interesting letter [6915]. The experiment strikes CD as a very valuable one. CD has forwarded the letter to Hooker, who is glad to make the trial. CD will have many experiments in progress next spring but he will open the packet of seeds and if they are numerous, will try a few himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123)
Summary:
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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:
Frederick W. Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.426
Summary:
Sinai expedition did not complete its work. Would like to send out Messrs. E. H. Palmer and C. F. T. Drake again. Can they continue to use JH's name as a trustee?
Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[15 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.285
Summary:
Discusses an exposed case of forgery involving supposed manuscripts of Blaise Pascal and the mathematician Michel Chasles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project