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DCP-LETT-2082

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
27 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:

Asks PHG to conduct an experiment to see if young littoral molluscs will cling to a duck’s foot – CD seeks to explain distribution of molluscs without adopting E. Forbes’s [continental extension] theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2664A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Henry Meade
Date:
23 Jan [1860?]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 1975/2/1)
Summary:

Asks RHM to clarify his statement in Annals of Natural History, vol. 15, p. 39, about variation in the maxillae of Phalangiidae and in true spiders, and to provide information on the variation in maxillae of spiders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection) (tipped into a copy of Bates 1892)
Summary:

Praises MS of first chapter of HWB’s book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)]. Suggests he give common names and make comparisons to familiar English species to help readers. Suggests a few changes. Will speak strongly to Murray about publishing whenever HWB is ready.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
27 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection)
Summary:

Thanks for information on domestic animals of Indians.

Glad Murray thinks well of MS of The naturalist on the river Amazons.

CD working on proofs of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
2 June [1863]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:

Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.

Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10177F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection, tipped into Insectivorous plants (1875): MS Misc. Letters 2)
Summary:

Thanks him for his kind review of Insectivorous plants in the Spectator. Disputes Tait’s report of a Nepenthes that trapped a fly but did not digest it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Denison Roebuck
Date:
3 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (SC MS 429/89)
Summary:

Thanks for address honouring him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1244

From:
Henry Goulburn
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 September 1845
Source of text:
University of Leeds Library, Special Collections BC Extra-illus From The letters of Queen Victoria 1837-1861 Vol.2, pt.1, opp. p.45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday3716

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Aspasia Paola A. Lega Fletcher
Date:
23 January 1860
Source of text:
University of Leeds Library, Brotherton Collection, miscellaneous letters (Lega-Fletcher autographs)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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