To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
To Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [before 25 September 1866]
Summary
Asks her to see whether the flowers or leaves of Erica massoni are noted as glutinous in the Botanical Magazine.
Inquires about the pods of peony: are they brilliantly coloured and do birds eat them?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | [before 25 Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | CUL (Add 4251: 336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5203 |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |
