From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 18
Summary:
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 190
Summary:
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 195
Summary:
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.256-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
13 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry Smith
Date:
14 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/1 f.51, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
This letter appears to be a draft copy, it is not signed by Joseph Dalton Hooker, though it is written in his hand, & it contains extensive corrections & struck through text. JDH writes to [William Henry] Smith regarding a potential conflict over the HMS 'Challenger' expedition collections, which he fears may arise between the scientific staff of the expedition & the British Museum. His fears stem from correspondence sent to the Royal Society by the Admiralty & Treasury. JDH offers his services as a mediator to head off this dispute as he knows the parties involved & has experience dealing with scientific expeditions. He asks to be put in contact with anyone at the Treasury who takes an interest in the matter.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
16 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.100, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
18 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69)
Summary:
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Brough Smyth
Date:
23 Oct 1876
Source of text:
State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 8781 Box 1176/1)
Summary:
Thanks for the third number of the Geological survey of Victoria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006)
Summary:
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project