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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 66–7
Summary:

JDH back from his honeymoon.

Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159
Summary:

Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:

Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.

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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 173
Summary:

Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
21 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 57
Summary:

Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.

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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
21 October [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 310
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 270
Summary:

Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.

Contributor:
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From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 271
Summary:

Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
23 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL, Henslow 1888 (tipped in opposite p. 190)
Summary:

Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.

Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24–5 October 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
24 October 1876
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1278
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 174
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.

Health better, but paralysis lingers.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 425–6
Summary:

Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.

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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
26 October 1876
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
26 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 144: 330
Summary:

Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.

Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64)
Summary:

Discussing a purchase of land.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
28 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 146
Summary:

Discusses legal arrangements [unspecified].

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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[29 October 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 68
Summary:

JDH looking for Hoya for CD.

Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.

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