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:
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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
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
19 and 20 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.3, 3.4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.]
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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?
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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:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25 September 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 126
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
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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:
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
26 September [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 3.5, 3.7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[28 September 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 127
Summary:
No summary available.
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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:
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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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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
29 September 1875
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters