To Gerard Krefft [September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for observations on worm-castings and for JLGK’s amusing letter.
Wants to know whether species of Eucalyptus are dichogamous. [The P.S. on Eucalyptus may be part of another letter to another correspondent.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Date: | [Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828); Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9037 |
From J. D. Hooker [September 1873]
Summary
Abstracts literature on sensitive plants (Linnaeus, L. P. Cailletet, W. R. McNab).
The Mimosa at Down is M. pudica.
Dichogamy in Eucalyptus difficult to decide, but Thiselton-Dyer thinks there is some protandry.
[Letter is in W. T. Thiselton-Dyer’s hand.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9038 |
To Theodor Gomperz 1 September [1873]
Summary
Will reread and consider TG’s letter when his health improves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Theodor Gomperz |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | Cedric Hausherr (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9039 |
To W. D. Fox 1 September [1873]
Summary
Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gomperz, Theodor | (1) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gomperz, Theodor | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
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