From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 187–8)
Summary:
Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
29 October 1879
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 224
Summary:
Seeking species or well marked varieties of Neuroptera, for work on peculiar animal forms.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Percival Wright
Date:
29 October 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395833
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 94
Summary:
Has Torbitt any further results? THF has forgotten what he had proposed to do.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
30 October 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-82, f. 249
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 3
Summary:
This autumn several observers have noted Plusia moths caught in the flowers of Physianthus albens. Also bees attack and devour the trapped moths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Schulte
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 65
Summary:
Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Sharp
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 October 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 54
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.3: 335
Summary:
Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
31 October 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418343
Summary:
Could Stainton check a list of species ARW has made from Staudinger's catalogue of European Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project