To R. I. Lynch 23 October [1877]
Summary
Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Irwin Lynch |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11199 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Summary
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
From W. C. Williamson 23 October 1877
Summary
Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia
| Author: | William Crawford Williamson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: B14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11201 |
From W. E. Gladstone 23 October 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
| Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11202 |
From E. M. Holmes 23 October 1877
Summary
Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.
| Author: | Edward Morell Holmes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11203 |
From T. F. Cheeseman 23 October 1877
Summary
Sends his paper on Selliera fertilisation [Trans. & Proc. N. Z. Inst. 9 (1876): 542–5]; contrasts it to CD’s description of Leschenaultia [Collected papers 2: 162–5].
Describes the irritability of Glossostigma elatinoides which he concludes is a mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
| Author: | Thomas Frederick Cheeseman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 December 1877, pp. 163–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11204 |
| letter | (6) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
| Holmes, E. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lynch, R. I. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Cheeseman, T. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
| Holmes, E. M. | (1) |
