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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 225–6
Summary:

List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[3 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 85
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Summary:

Thanks for "multitudinous" references.

Thanks Hooker for orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 86
Summary:

Reports events at Down;

has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 91: 83
Summary:

Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4
Summary:

Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.

Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
10 [November] 1861
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 87
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 89
Summary:

Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Scot Skirving
Date:
16 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 481
Summary:

Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 3
Summary:

Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project