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DCP-LETT-10645

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
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FVM-76-10-18

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10646

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

DCP-LETT-10647

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
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FL-1191

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

DCP-LETT-10650

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

DCP-LETT-10651

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

DCP-LETT-10648

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

DCP-LETT-10651F

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

DCP-LETT-10649

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
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FL-0782

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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FL-1531

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-76-10-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
24 October 1876
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10652

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

DCP-LETT-10221F

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

DCP-LETT-10654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
25 Oct 1876
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149)
Summary:

Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.

Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10653

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0587

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

DCP-LETT-10655

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11212F

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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