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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Agnew
Date:
18 October 1873
Source of text:
RSA/B.13(3), Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
18 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Apologises for his ignorance in interpreting the results secured in his testing with blue litmus paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a)
Summary:
Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[19 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 106
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
19 October [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1290
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert George Dew-Smith
Date:
19 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.434)
Summary:
Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 20 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b)
Summary:
Lists plants in which he is interested, including Neptunia and Mimosa species.
Do any strictly tropical plants have glaucous leaves?
Asks for observations on irritable plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1:14
Summary:
CD gives his criticisms of GHD’s essay on religion and the moral sense. Urges him to delay publishing for some months and then to consider whether it is new and important enough to counterbalance the effects of its publication. J. S. Mill would never have influenced the age as he has done had he not refrained from expressing his religious convictions. Cites John Morley’s Life of Voltaire [1872]: direct attacks produce little effect; real good comes from slow and silent side attacks. "My advice is to pause, pause, pause."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer
Date:
21 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for TE’s work on [Beroe?] with illustrations of its parts [Zoologische Studien auf Capri 1 (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[22 October 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 584
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 10
Summary:
Lists observations he would like FD to make on the dried species of Desmodium at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 11
Summary:
Wants FD to look at the little lateral leaflets of Desmodium. CD has "a wild hypothesis that the little leaflets may be tendrils reconverted into leaflets".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
C73/13734, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 282–3
Summary:
Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.
Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.
No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.
Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.
Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Swift Wade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 181: 2
Summary:
Further details on inheritance of an eyelid abnormality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project