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DCP-LETT-12269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125)
Summary:

Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.

Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12270

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B3–4
Summary:

Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12272

From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 121
Summary:

Asks CD to examine his idea that human and animal sociology are related, as each is based on the principle of mutual concession (derived from Schopenhauer’s law of compassion). If CD approves, he should write a note and forward it and GMA’s letter to Macmillan’s Magazine.

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DCP-LETT-12271

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B44–5
Summary:

Problem with Charles Reinwald could be solved if CD would ask that French edition [of Erasmus Darwin] follow English. EK willing to co-operate with Reinwald.

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DCP-LETT-12273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Michael Asher
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Cannot answer questions on origin of instinct, sociology, etc. Suggests references in Origin and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12274

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Schulte
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 428
Summary:

Discusses case of colour display in butterfly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC677

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 54, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12275F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
[29 Oct 1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36218)
Summary:

Encloses a letter from CD to C.-F. Reinwald for EK to read, and if he approves, to send on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12276

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:

Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 187–8)
Summary:

Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12279

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 94
Summary:

Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12277

From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 3
Summary:

This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12278

From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 65
Summary:

Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:

Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12281

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 335
Summary:

Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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