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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 324–5)
Summary:

Sends list for complimentary copies and suggests various arrangements related to publication of Climbing plants.

Thinks a revised edition of Orchids is needed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 852
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
23 October 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Gustavus Fritsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 217
Summary:

About a Polish edition of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:

Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].

Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 305
Summary:

Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:

Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:

Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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