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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
6 September [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 31
Summary:
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emanuel Bonavia
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 26 September 1868, p. 1013
Summary:
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46)
Summary:
Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.
Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 77
Summary:
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 271
Summary:
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Sterry
Date:
[7 September 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0392.2; Reel 1054
Summary:
Recalls CS's promotion to senior clerk in Mint office in May or June 1854, with full approval by W. H. Barton. Attests to CS's merits then, but advises CS to seek recommendation now from current master of Mint.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[7 September 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0078; Reel 1054
Summary:
News of JH's son William and family, visiting England. JH and wife suffer from hot weather. JH's son John observed 'great eclipse.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8–10 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 91–2
Summary:
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 216
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Sterry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0939; Reel 1083
Summary:
Gratitude for JH's recollection of circumstances that led to CS's appointment at Royal Mint. Death of W. H. Barton, whose duties CS took over. Lists famous persons who have written to Treasury on CS's behalf, when Treasury is planning to replace CS with a political appointee.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273)
Summary:
Asks about the differences in colour of plumage of adult male, female, and young birds. Suggests pile game as subject.
Asks about relative proportion of sexes in ducks and fowls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:
Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[9 September 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 60
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7.
Summary:
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 85
Summary:
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 43
Summary:
Sends a paper he has written [on scarlet runner].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 September 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, ff. 346
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
10 September 1868
Source of text:
M68/3168, unit 24, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 September 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 344-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project