To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1876] ; CD had evidently expected that Hooker would still be at Glasgow, where he attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was held from 6 to 13 September 1876 ( Report of the 46th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1877): …
To Francis Darwin [c. December 1876]
Summary
Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1877. Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1858–64. Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniæ: an enumeration of Ceylon plants, with descriptions of the new and little-known genera and species, observations on their habits, uses, native names, etc. Assisted in the identification of the species and synonymy by J. D. Hooker. …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 22 September [1876]
Summary
Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10612 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 17 October [1876] . Thiselton-Dyer had sent a specimen of Catasetum , probably Catasetum tabulare , but CD had not been able to make the observations he wanted (see letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 September 1876 and n. 1). CD was making further observations for Orchids 2d ed. , which was published in January 1877 ( …
To James Geikie 16 November 1876
Summary
On JG’s Great ice age.
Discusses formation of drift deposits near Southampton.
Comments on Axel Blytt [Immigration of Norwegian flora (1876)].
Has had fearful misgivings that the step-like plains of Patagonia may have been caused by changes in level of sea, not land.
Comments on book [Archibald Geikie, Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison (1875)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Murdoch (James) Geikie |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10676 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Geikie, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Geikie, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
