To T. M. Reade 12 October [1877]
Summary
CD is occupied with vegetable physiology.
Prefers to read MS when published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11180 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 October 1877
Summary
Another issue of Origin will be needed for Murray’s annual sale. Has CD any corrections?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 492 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11181 |
From Robert Damon 12 October 1877
Summary
Asks whether CD considers it possible that a mollusc could poison anyone on contact, as RD has heard from missionaries about a certain South Sea variety.
| Author: | Robert Damon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11182 |
| letter | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Damon, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Damon, Robert | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … conservatories, dry-stoves, and moist- or bark-stoves (p. 1012). More particularly, it was …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
