To T. H. Huxley 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].
Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10214 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1875
Summary
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10215 |
From Lawson Tait 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10217 |
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 |
From Hermann Müller 23 October 1875
Summary
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10219 |
From Gustavus Fritsche 23 October 1875
Summary
About a Polish edition of Variation.
| Author: | Gustavus Fritsche |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221 |
To R. F. Cooke 23 October [1875]
Summary
Sends list for complimentary copies and suggests various arrangements related to publication of Climbing plants.
Thinks a revised edition of Orchids is needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 324–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10216 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fritsche, Gustavus | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Fritsche, Gustavus | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
