To T. H. Farrer 26 November 1868
Summary
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6475 |
From T. H. Farrer 30 November 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6485 |
From John Lubbock and E. F. Lubbock 11 November [1868]
Summary
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6456 |
Document type
| letter | (43) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Addressee
| Croll, James | (1) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lewes, G. H. | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Natura Artis Magistra (Artis). | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
