From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Horace Darwin had been seriously ill earlier in the year, and Emma and Leonard had been ill with scarlet fever during the summer (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)). On 13 October, Emma recorded in her diary: ‘all children poorly’, and on 25 October she recorded that she herself was ‘feverish’ with a ‘bad cold’. See letter …
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Horace Darwin had been seriously ill at the beginning of 1862. Emma and Leonard Darwin had both become ill with scarlet fever during the summer (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)). T. H. Huxley 1863 . An account of the formation of this association was given by the zoologist Alfred Newton , in a letter …
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| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
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| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
