From Jeffries Wyman [c. 15] September 1860
Summary
Cases of monstrosities becoming transmissible.
Comments on passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu (Ctenomys) and Mammoth Cave rats.
| Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 15] Sept 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2901 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 [September 1860]
Summary
Thanks for reference to Annales des Sciences Naturelles.
Requests DO observe rate at which Australian Drosera closes.
On detection of nitrogen in organic fluids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 [Sept 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 10 (EH 88205994) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2917 |
To George Varenne Reed 15 September [1860]
Summary
The family will move to sea-side because of his daughter Henrietta’s health. When they return he will be glad to send Leonard twice a week for tutoring. Frank is in a low form at school but is doing very well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2918 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 15 September [1860]
Summary
Asks for any published reference providing account of the movement of the viscid hairs or leaves of Drosera lunata, an Indian Drosera which Lindley cites in Vegetable kingdom, p. 433.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 22 September 1860, p. 853 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2918A |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Reed, G. V. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Reed, G. V. | (1) |
| Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |
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