To William Sharpey 28 October [1860]
Summary
Testimonial for Daniel Oliver’s candidacy as Professor of Botany [DO was Professor of Botany, University College London, 1861–88].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 70 (EH) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2967 |
From Edward Cresy 30 October 1860
Summary
Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2968 |
To Asa Gray 31 October [1860]
Summary
Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.
Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2969 |
From John Medows Rodwell 31 October 1860
Summary
Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.
Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.
| Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2970 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 23 October 1860]
Summary
Quotes note by Julius Milde on Drosera rotundifolia from Botanische Zeitung (1852): 540.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 23 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2971 |
| letter | (45) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hofmann, A. W. von | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Bridges, Thomas (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (9) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (11) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
