To Georg von Seidlitz 13 October 1876
Summary
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
To J. V. Carus 18 October [1876]
Summary
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10645 |
From George Henslow 20 October 1876
Summary
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10646 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
To George Henslow 23 October [1876]
Summary
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 23 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL, Henslow 1888 (tipped in opposite p. 190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10648 |
To R. B. Smyth 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for the third number of the Geological survey of Victoria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Brough Smyth |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 8781 Box 1176/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10649 |
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10650 |
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651 |
To Gustav Jäger 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651F |
From George Henslow 24 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10652 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 October [1876]
Summary
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 425–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10653 |
To J. V. Carus 25 October 1876
Summary
Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.
Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10654 |
To James Geikie 26 October 1876
Summary
Comments on JG’s book [The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man, 2d ed. (1877)]. Recalls erratic boulder he knew in Shropshire as a boy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
Date: | 26 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10655 |
To Asa Gray 28 October 1876
Summary
Is sending sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation. He will be curious to see what AG thinks of it, as AG speaks the truth whether or not he approves. Is sick of trying to correct his "horrid bad style".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10656 |
To W. E. Darwin 28 October [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 28 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10657 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1876
Summary
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10658 |
To W. C. Marshall 30 October [1876?]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [missing] concerned with a very provoking delay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Cecil (Bill) Marshall |
Date: | 30 Oct [1876?] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10659 |
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 31 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks for Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876).
Will send a copy of Cross and self fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
Date: | 31 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10659F |
From W. E. Darwin 27 October [1876]
Summary
Discussing a purchase of land.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11212F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Cross, George | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cross, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Cross, George | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |