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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Downing
Date:
20 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 418
Summary:

Gratified that a man of JD’s experience agrees with him.

Would enjoy seeing him at Down but it could only be for a half-hour’s talk at most, because of his health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 12
Summary:

Sends an essay ["Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss", Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131-98.]

with expressions of admiration. CGE is confident their differences will not estrange them.

Remembers with gratitude the [Atlantic] dust that CD made available to him in 1844 [see 747].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 171–2
Summary:

Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.

Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 60.2: 58
Summary:

Composition of the residue left on evaporation of the fluid in Nepenthes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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