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FVM-75-10-00

From:
Eugene Fitzalan
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
October 1875
Source of text:
MEL 657789, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10179

From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 86: B5–B5a
Summary:

Acknowledges copy of Insectivorous plants; has observed Drosera filiformis leaves closing around prey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10179G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas William Newton
Date:
1 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (dealers) (27 May 2021, lot 0090)
Summary:

Sends his compliments and thanks [with payment of £13 to TWN for compiling catalogue of CD’s books].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-10-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
2 October 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10179F

From:
Mr Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed., p. 47, n. 19
Summary:

When the tails of horned cattle are rubbed ‘just below the root,’ they invariably twist their bodies, stretch their necks, and begin to lick their lips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13845

From:
John Storer
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 343 (fragile)
Summary:

Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0990

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 and 4 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
3 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 354
Summary:

Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.

Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30)
Summary:

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10183

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 470
Summary:

Hopes printing of Variation [2d ed.] is going satisfactorily.

Climbing plants [2d ed.] is finished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3435

From:
Christian Reimers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 October 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 114-115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
6 Oct 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 326–7)
Summary:

Fears Variation [2d ed.] will not be ready for Murray’s annual sale unless printer sends proof more quickly. Arrangements with Italian publishers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4939

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1875]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.328
Summary:

What should he do with the letters received previously from her?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-10185F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972)
Summary:

An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
7 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Summary:

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10187

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 471
Summary:

Canestrini still owes £10 from 1869 for electros of 1st edition [of Variation].

RC has urged Clowes on with printing of Variation [2d ed.],

but with Climbing plants [2d ed.] ready, it need not be done before the annual sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4940

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1875]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.329
Summary:

Is sending a packet of letters. Relates about the loss of his wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-10186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Summary:

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1422

From:
Darwin, Ida
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 October [1875–9]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1064
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10188

From:
Edouard Bergson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 173
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion on whether there is a fundamental difference between the "primitive forms" of animals and plants. Mentions and rejects various views of major distinguishing characteristics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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