From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date:
16 Sept [1875-81]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 148)
Summary:
Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Woodward Emery
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 163: 18
Summary:
Informs CD of Chauncey Wright’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Newington
Date:
17 Sept 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.475)
Summary:
Thanks SN for his explanation of vines.
Discusses SN’s observation on roots secreting carbonic acid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
18 Sept [1875-9]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 277
Summary:
Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert David Fitzgerald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 130
Summary:
On fertilisation in certain orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 194
Summary:
Writing article for a German newspaper on CD’s life. Requests autobiographical information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A80–1
Summary:
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:
Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].
Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Norton and Howe eds. 1913, 2: 57–9
Summary:
Reports the death of Chauncey Wright: "a great blow … to the interests of sound thought and scientific inquiry throughout the country".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
Summary:
Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–4 Sept 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: C63–4
Summary:
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Sept [1875-6]
Source of text:
Empire Auction (dealers) (1996)
Summary:
Encloses a photograph and [?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A82
Summary:
Sends a lecture CD wished to see
and corrects himself about the twins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel
Date:
24 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Brief-ID 11494)
Summary:
Thinks JGFR should send report of coloured spots on infants’ buttocks to some ethnological society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476)
Summary:
Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
Summary:
Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].
Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.
Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913)
Summary:
From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.
Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.
Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 143
Summary:
Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].
Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.
Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 132
Summary:
Comments on Insectivorous plants.
Describes his own work on fossil flora of Eastern Siberia.
Discusses genus Ginkgo.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 208
Summary:
Reports on Schrankia aculeata in which pinna and pinnule are sensitive, but, unlike Mimosa pudica, rachis does not move.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Galton, Francis4
- Newington, Samuel3
- Ogle, William3
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, Francis2
- John Murray2
- Romanes, G. J.2
- Tait, Lawson2
- Thiselton-Dyer, W. T.2
- Clark, J. W. (b)1
- Cohn, F. J.1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Dresser, H. E.1
- Emery, Woodward1
- Fayrer, Joseph1
- Fitzgerald, R. D.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Heer, Oswald1
- Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst von1
- Morphy, F. J.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Norton, C. E.1
- Price, John1
- Riedel, J. G. F.1
- Rolleston, George1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Severtsov, N. A.1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Stuart, A. J.1
- Unidentified1
- Wheatley, H. B.1
- Whitney, W. D.1