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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

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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