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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 10 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 453
Summary:

Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263)
Summary:

Absence of organic remains in many deposits.

Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.

Comments on former geological state of England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 104–105)
Summary:

Asks that a copy of Origin [3d ed.] be sent to Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer; she has arranged with a publisher for a French translation.

Origin is exciting much attention in Germany.

Surprised to receive a Dutch translation.

Has never seen an advertisement [of 3d ed.], which is a pity. Hopes "Bishop of Oxford & Co." have not made JM sorry he published it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Sepr 10th 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/246, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project