From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 18
Summary:
Wants CD to contribute to a new magazine to promote theism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 40–1
Summary:
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 47: 205–6
Summary:
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
21 October [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 851
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8264)
Summary:
Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.
Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 37
Summary:
Has heard that 2d ed. of Variation is out. If CD will send it to him, he will complete the Italian translation in a short time.
His translation of Expression is nearly finished [published in 1878],
and the 2d ed. of Origin is almost entirely published.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 473
Summary:
Sends a copy of Climbing plants [2d ed.]. Price cannot be higher than 6s.
Variation [2d ed.] price will be 18s, if CD approves. Future reprints will not be costly, since both have been stereotyped.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 35–6)
Summary:
Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].
Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 324–5)
Summary:
Sends list for complimentary copies and suggests various arrangements related to publication of Climbing plants.
Thinks a revised edition of Orchids is needed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 October 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 852
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
23 October 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Gustavus Fritsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 217
Summary:
About a Polish edition of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320)
Summary:
Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].
Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 305
Summary:
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C19
Summary:
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 476
Summary:
Stereotype plates of Climbing plants sent to D. Appleton’s agent.
A revised edition of Orchids would be desirable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project