From Emma Darwin to John Tyndall 7 October [1875]
Summary
An invitation to Down for Sunday 16 October.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185F |
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- … DAR 261.8: 34 (EH 88205972) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin 7 Oct [1875] Down John Tyndall …
- … have a remnant of summer to receive you. Believe me | very truly yours | Emma Darwin. …
- … visit (see n. 2, below). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Thomas Henry Huxley , …
To C. E. Norton 7 October 1875
Summary
Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10185 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
To John Tyndall 25 October [1875]
Summary
Asks JT to send the tubes [of boiled infusions]. Frank Darwin will do his best. Asks for full instructions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 23 (EH 88205961) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10222 |
From John Tyndall 23 October [1875]
Summary
Asks whether he may send two or three other tubes [of boiled infusions] to be placed in the open and observed for him.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10218 |
To G. J. Romanes 8 October 1875
Summary
CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10186 |
To John Tyndall 20 October [1875]
Summary
JT’s tube [of boiled infusion] dated 16 Oct was clear on 19th; on the 20th it was muddy and contained many bacteria in living movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10207 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 October [1875]
Summary
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 392–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10193 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 October [1875]
Summary
Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.
Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 29–30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10180 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 October 1875
Summary
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10197 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1875]
Summary
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 394–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10200 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tyndall, John | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Norton, C. E. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Tyndall, John | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
