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DCP-LETT-11204

From:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4
Summary:

Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].

Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0805

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[23 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 166
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11200

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 66
Summary:

Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.

Proposal for CD’s LL.D.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11202

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 50
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.

WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11203

From:
Edward Morell Holmes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 255
Summary:

Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:
23 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC643

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 October 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 25, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11201

From:
William Crawford Williamson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 86: B14–15
Summary:

Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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