From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 42
Summary:
Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Kencely Bridgman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 307
Summary:
Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.
Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
23 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:
Thanks JO for intending to dedicate his The Andes and the Amazon to him.
The discovery of marine shells high up the Amazons CD finds extremely interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[23 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.246
Summary:
Note with return of proof of JH's biographical sketch [see WH's 1869-1-22] of William Dawes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project