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DCP-LETT-11196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
22 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
James G. Zimmer (private collection)
Summary:

Specimen ruined in transit.

Drosera spathulata modified form of D. rotundifolia.

Sends reference regarding Bolbophyllum.

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

DCP-LETT-11205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 149
Summary:

Returns [unspecified] enclosure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
24 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 March 1973)
Summary:

Thanks WCW for sending specimens. Drosera spathulata must be descended from some form like D. rotundifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
25 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210)
Summary:

Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.

CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597)
Summary:

CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 455–6
Summary:

Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:

Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 60
Summary:

Has given dates [for the Cambridge University honorary degree] to the Vice-Chancellor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11217A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Adolf Viktor (Emil) Ertl
Date:
[31 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 634 26 November 1985)
Summary:

Sends autograph and wishes EE success in his scientific studies and career.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
31 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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