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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
[early Oct 1876]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 66–67)
Summary:

Tells JVC that to the title on the first page [of Cross and self-fertilisation] is to be added "in the vegetable kingdom".

Guesses that Orchids [2d ed.] will be 20 or 30 pages longer than the old edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1?-10-1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH describes his impressions of Sir W. Stirling Maxwell's home at Keir near Stirling, [Scotland], including the interiors of the house, the library & art collections, & garden design & management. JDH is grateful to learn from Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that the Hevea [rubber] matter is settled. He is uncertain what to do about Prestoe's affairs. JDH thanks WTTD for signing cheques for his daughter [Harriet Hooker later Thiselton-Dyer]. JDH approves of WTTD going to the Hereford Fungus Show to maintain RBG Kew's profile. Mentions a Mr Phillips & the British Museum buying Nylander's collection of herbarium specimens. RBG Kew, through Daniel Oliver, should co-ordinate the fungi they are buying with Berkeley so they do not duplicate. Discusses replacing Gammie & Hartog, the latter [as Assistant Director of Peradeniya Botanic Garden] possibly with Traill, thought JDH does not think that [George Henry Kendrick] Thwaites will be happy with anyone as his deputy. JDH is scathing of Edgeworth's work published in the Linnean Society Transactions, calling his species 'Chimaeras…seen in wood-cuts of SCIENCE GOSSIP' but advises WTTD to maintain silent contempt rather than denounce Edgeworth. JDH blames Curry & Allman [as officers of the Linnean Society] & W. Smith for not giving his opinion in writing to the Linnean Society Council. JDH notes that he is considering making his Royal Society address about fossil botany, with allusions to Williamson's papers & Hector's discoveries in New Zealand, Sapoteas & the question of temperate forests in arctic regions. He would also like to caution against introducing subjects such as spiritualism to scientific meetings.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 15
Summary:

Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].

Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Zacharias
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 184: 3
Summary:

Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].

German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Oct 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 40
Summary:

Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 October 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 October [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 308
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 268
Summary:

Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 October 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 October 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 350-351
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
4 October [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1651
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 307
Summary:

He has never observed the straight line flight routes in male humble-bees that CD reports.

His last letter was in error: alpine Bombus terrestris does break into some flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
5 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03)
Summary:

The sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation will be sent to OZ as they become ready.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cross
Date:
6 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is much interested in a change in Drosera reported by GC, but "rather doubts" exclusion of insects can have caused it; would like to see the plant and suggests sending it to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 October 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 141
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.58, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH & his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] have just returned from their honeymoon to North Wales where they climbed Cadair Idris & Snowdon. They also went to the Botanical Association at Glasgow where they & George Bentham stayed with JDH's niece Mrs Campbell. The married tour continued around Scotland to the Clyde, some of JDH's 'old haunts' on Loch Lomond & Inveray [Inveraray], Loch Awe via Crinan, Oban via Ben Cruachan, Skye, Gari Loch [Gairloch], Loch Maree, Dingwall, Inverness, Forres, Rothiemurchus, Stirling, to stay with the McGilvrays at Bridge of Allan & with Brian Houghton Hodgson in Gloucestershire & another visit in Worcestershire. Hyacinth Hooker proved an excellent walker & climber, enduring a long walk through the bogs in Skye, a 25 mile walk to a church in the Cuchillins [Cuillin], & a trek to 2000 feet over Loch Coruisk. He wonders whether Mrs [Jane Loring] Gray is an equally robust walker. JDH has found that he is very compatible with his new wife, she has a genuine interest in plants & will make an excellent step mother. Discusses the correct author attributions for Tripetalia & Tuckermannia. Olvey[?] has not turned up. Thanks Gray for Abies fraseri cones & asks what soil they should be grown in. JDH will begin working on his Anniversary Address for the Royal Society. Thanks Gray for a cheque for Gay's plants.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
7 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.147, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Frederick John Owen Evans
Date:
7 October 1876
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/1 f.50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
7 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections (Charles Darwin / Evolution Collection Mss 28 Correspondence Box 4: 12)
Summary:

Approves the type for Orchids [2d ed.]. The printer should advise Murray that it will be 300 pages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 16
Summary:

Sends an article for FD.

Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project